A Prospective Study of the Influence of Post-Graduate Training in Psychiatry on the Rating of Mental Abnormality

Abstract

Although psychiatrists trained in the United States and the British Isles pick out the same areas of psychopathology, American psychiatrists display a tendency, greater than British psychiatrists, to use high ratings of pathology when asked to rate a videotaped clinical interview (Kendell et al., 1971; Sharpe et al., 1974). Within the British Isles Maudsley-trained psychiatrists rated lower than psychiatrists trained at other centres (Copeland et al., 1971).