The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): a quantitative nosology based on consensus of evidence. Ann Rev Clin Psychol. 17:83-108.

About a hundred experts argue that there’s a better way. The model they have developed—called the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology, or HiTOP—accounts for mental illness at multiple ...

Diagnosis also guides research efforts and is used by drug companies to develop new medications. The newly developed diagnostic approach is called the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP).