Study Questions Reliability of Mental Health Diagnostic Interviews

Patients may receive incorrect diagnoses leading to inappropriate treatment and delayed access to proper mental health care.

A new study has quietly unsettled one of psychiatry's foundational assumptions: that structured diagnostic interviews reliably identify mental illness. Conducted in the tradition of rigorous self-examination that science requires but institutions often resist, the research finds that two clinicians interviewing the same patient may arrive at meaningfully different conclusions — a variance with consequences that ripple from the individual patient outward into research, policy, and public trust. It is a moment that invites the field not toward despair, but toward the kind of honest reckoning tha

Study Questions Reliability of Mental Health Diagnostic Interviews

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