The first draft of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders was released last month by the American Psychiatric Association, adding a range of controversial new disorders. If you hoard too much you may have hoar...

Beginning with the upcoming fifth edition, new versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) will be identified with Arabic rather than Roman numerals, marking a change in how future updates will be c...

I've been reading the sexuality-related proposed revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Assocation and I'm troubled. In the move from DSM-IV to DSM-V It seems th...

Everyone has Post-It Notes. A lot of people use them. Most people abuse them. I'd like to add "Re-positional Addiction" to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

The Diagnostics Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, a much maligned document, is in the midst of its fourth major revision (the DSM-IV will be replaced by the DSM-V). This process has been going on for over a decade. The revisi...

In the past few months I've received numerous calls and emails about the revisions to the bible of the psychiatric world - the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM for short.  The diagnosis in this manual ar...

I just ran across a recent New York Times opinion piece about the changes being made in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders by the American Psychiatric Association. The writer was long time autism denialist, Ro...

With no input from Sarah Palin (as far as we know), the American Psychiatric Assn., in its new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, has replaced the term "mental retardation" with "intellectual disability." Whether...

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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is currently under review by psychiatrists and other mental health professionals for its fifth edition (the DSM-V) before its official printing in 2013. Included in the draft...

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) urges individuals and families to familiarize themselves with the draft of the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), which is used by psychiatrists and other mental health profes...

So the draft of DSM-V is out.If, as everyone says, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is the Bible of Psychiatry, I'm not sure why it gets heavily edited once every ten years or so. Perhaps the previous versions are a kind of Old...

Snip from New York Times op-ed by Roy Richard Grinker: "The American Psychiatric Association, with its release (...) of proposed revisions to its authoritative Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is recommending t...

A draft of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders (DSM) has been posted for online review before its... ...

The American Psychological Association has just come out with a new Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. ...Symptoms of sluggish cognitive tempo disorder include passiveness, dreaminess and sluggishness - traits t...

The draft of the DSM-5, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, was released this week. This guide to the diagnosis of mental and behavioral health problems will shape the delivery of psychological, psychiatric, and social care for ...

The New York times has a short, but fascinating piece on the preparation of a revised version of of one of the world’s most influential documents – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, produced by the American ...

DSM stands for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Yeah, you can see why it’s referred to as DSM. That’s a mouthful. The DSM, the standard used for classifying mental disorders, is put together by the American Psy...

The previous versions of the American Psychiatric Association (APA)’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders were called DSM-I, DSM-II, DSM-III, and DSM-IV – but the new one is being named DSM-5. It seems the APA ha...

The American Psychiatric Association today released the proposed draft diagnostic criteria for the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The draft criteria represent content changes under cons...