This is the title of a disturbing commentary written by the leaders of the DSM 5 Task Force and published in this month's American Journal of Psychiatry. The contents suggest that we must lower our ...
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a tool used by healthcare professionals to diagnose, classify, and understand mental health conditions. The DSM standardizes criteria ...
Criteria for mental health disorders have been formulated by expert committees. But are they right? Psychiatry image from shutterstock Welcome to Matters of the Mind, a series which examines the ...
The DSM-5 is not the only system of classification of mental illness. Image from shutterstock.com The new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) is the latest instalment in the long-running saga ...
The DSM manual consists of descriptions, symptoms, and other principles that help clinicians to diagnose and classify psychological disorders. Apart from the classification of content, DSM-5 also ...
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