Guest Editorial discusses symptom-oriented psychiatry, enhancing treatment strategies in mental health.
This Guest Editorial argues that symptoms, rather than syndromic diagnoses alone, function as the practical units of psychiatric care. To render implicit symptom-oriented reasoning explicit, symptom-oriented clinical psychiatry offers a structured framework for analysing symptom roles, guiding treatment priorities and sequence and reducing reactive polypharmacy while remaining fully compatible with established diagnostic systems.
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Jian Hu (2026) studied this question.
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