The Effect of Professional Training, Experience, and Preference for a Theoretical System upon Clinical Case Description.

The article presents a study which attempts to delineate some areas of agreement and disagreement in the evaluation of the same patient by groups of clinicians with varying professional training, experience, and preference of for a given theoretical system. The paper is limited to a report on the clinicians evaluations of the verbalizations of the two patients. Differences between the clinicians' judgments were examined for systematic trends. Results demonstrates that regardless of accuracy, clinicians are characterized in their assessment of the concerns of a patient by certain kinds of biases which result to selective observations.