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The Psychiatric Interview: The Impact of the First Three Minutes

MYRON G. SANDIFER, JR., ANTHONY HORDERN, and LINDA M. GREENAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 126, Number 7

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.7.968

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In a two-phase study of diagnostic decision making, psychiatrist observers viewed films of diagnostic interviews and recorded their comments and the symptoms they saw in the patients. Analysis of the results, in terms of the time at which conclusions and symptoms were reported, revealed that the first three minutes of observation have a significant, and sometimes apparently decisive, impact upon the final diagnostic decision.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 126 • Number 7 • January 1970

Pages: 968 - 973

PubMed: 5409567

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Published in print: January 1970

Published online: 1 April 2006

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MYRON G. SANDIFER, JR.

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ANTHONY HORDERN

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LINDA M. GREEN

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Professor of psychiatry and associate dean for academic affairs, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Ky. 40506

Consultant psychiatrist, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, England

Research associate, North Carolina Foundation for Mental Health Research, Inc., Dorothea Dix Hospital, Raleigh, N.C.

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The Psychiatric Interview: The Impact of the First Three Minutes

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