Neuropsychiatric Disorders in Mentally Retarded People

Abstract

The utility of psychiatric diagnosis may be overstated, or it may be disparaged, depending on one’s point of view. So, it is appropriate to consider what a psychiatric diagnosis really is. It is a fallacy to think that all the so-called psychiatric disorders are meaningful entities, from a classical medical, that is, an etiopathogenic, point of view. It fact, none of them are. Whatever validity they have is based on no more than natural history, genetic associations, or response to specific treatments.