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An Inventory for Measuring Depression A. T. BECK, C. H. WARD, hI. hIENDELSON, J. MOCK, J. ERBAUCH, PHILADELPHIA The difficulties inherent in obtaining con- sistent and adequate diagnoses for the pur- poses of research and therapy have been pointed out by a number of authors. Pasamanick12 in a recent article viewed the low interclinician agreement on diagnosis as an indictment of the present state of psychiatry and called for "the development of objective, measurable and verifiable criteria of classification based not on per- sonal or parochial considerations, but- on behavioral and other objectively measurable manifestations." Attempts by other investigators to subject clinical observations and judgments to ob- jective measurement have resulted in a wide variety of psychiatric rating ~cales.

disorder 41%,, psychoneurotic disorder 4376, per- sonality disorder 16%. The distributions among the subgroups were in order of frequency as fol-

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