Clinical Psychiatry vs. Research Psychiatry

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In the last twenty years of my life I have been seen by both Clinical Psychiatry and Research Psychiatry. Now there are differences between Clinical and Research Psychiatry. The biggest difference is the terminology that is used. Clinical uses one set of terminology and Research uses another. Often times Clincal screws things up and gets it all wrong where as Research often times has it right. It is sometimes hard to get the two together and talk things out so that everyone knows everything. See sometimes one mental illness can be mistaken for another but yet another mental illness can be mistaken for another. Yet in some cases two mental illnesses are the same but can be interchangable as to what the diagnosis is called. That is why the differences between clincal and research can be confusing to some one who does both. But until both come together and talk and let everything get out in the open no one will know anything. But what do you do when Clinical refuses to fill out consent forms to talk to Research because they believe that they are right and that research is wrong and Research is willing to fill out consent forms but the people who need to do it are hardly around. Well at this point in time only time will tell.