Why are psychiatric diagnoses generally diagnoses of exclusion

Why are psychiatric diagnoses generally diagnoses of exclusion? 

A multitude of etiopathologic origins can underlie psychiatric phenomenology. While the etiopathology may be known in some cases, psychiatric disorders are often complex and idiopathic.

Care should be taken to evaluate for and exclude known medical causes of the phenomenology before a psychiatric diagnosis is made.

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