Question

Rajesh was diagnosed by his psychologist as having generalized anxiety disorder. He moved to another city and was diagnosed with social anxiety disorder by his new psychologist. He was confused by this so he sought another opinion with a third psychologist who diagnosed him with agoraphobia. This is an example of the reliability problems of:

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: the DSM-5.

the DSM-5 filled with standard classifications that professionals in psychological field can used to identify the type of illness that their patients have. With this classifications, we hoped that there would be less cases when different psychologists offered different conclusions and make the patients confused.