Descriptive psychiatry
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Descriptive psychiatry is that which is based on the study of observable symptoms and behavioral phenomena rather than underlying psychodynamic processes, in contrast with dynamic psychiatry which is based on the study of emotional processes, their origins, and the mental mechanisms underlying them.
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