Editing Lumpers and splitters (section)

=== Psychiatry ===
In [[psychiatry]], the
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'splitters' and the 'lumpers' have fundamentally different approaches to psychiatric diagnosis and classification. First, 'splitters' emphasise the heterogeneity within the diagnostic categories and argue that this heterogeneity drives the 'splitting' process'. 'Lumpers', on the other hand, point to the similarities ''between'' the diagnostic categories, and suggest that these similarities justify the creation of broader entities.<ref>
{{cite book
 | last = Starcevic
 | first = Vladan
 | chapter = Classification of anxiety disorders and conceptual and diagnostic issues
 | editor1-last = Boyce
 | editor1-first = Philip
 | editor2-last = Harris
 | editor2-first = Anthony
 | editor3-last = Drobny
 | editor3-first = Juliette
 | editor4-last = Lampe
 | editor4-first = Lisa
 | editor5-last = Starcevic
 | editor5-first = Vladan
 | editor6-last = Bryant
 | editor6-first = Richard
 | editor6-link = Richard Bryant (psychologist)
 | title = The Sydney Handbook of Anxiety Disorders: A Guide to the Symptoms, Causes and Treatments of Anxiety Disorders
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=I-67BwAAQBAJ
 | location = New South Wales
 | publisher = The University of Sydney
 | date = 2015
 | page = 40
 | isbn = 9780994214508
 | access-date = 3 August 2020
 | quote = The 'splitters' and the 'lumpers' have fundamentally different approaches to psychiatric diagnosis and classification. First, 'splitters' emphasise the heterogeneity within the diagnostic categories and argue that this heterogeneity drives the 'splitting' process'. 'Lumpers', on the other hand, point to the similarities ''between'' the diagnostic categories, and suggest that these similarities justify the creation of broader entities.
}}
</ref>
</blockquote>
Thus lumpers might see [[Psychological stress|"stress"]] where splitters could identify (say) [[worry]], [[grief]], or some sort of [[anxiety disorder]].