I generally consider myself unshockable when it comes to new disorders and illnesses that some psychiatrists want to include in the DSM, but a new proposal to include bitterness in the forthcoming edition of DSM-V real shakes me up. It...
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The American Psychiatric Association today released the organizational framework proposed for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). This restructuring of the DSM's chapters and categor... Read Post
The DSM, or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is the standard reference work used in the United States for diagnosing mental illness. Here in Europe many psychiatrists prefer the International Classification of ... Read Post
Mike Magee Disagreements are common among psychiatrists. And no debate more reliably leads to an intellectual brawl than the classification of psychiatric illnesses in the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders... Read Post