The new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5), a compendium of psychiatric diagnoses, will be released this month. DSM-5 has been heralded by its authors and publishers (the ...
My biggest concern regarding DSM 5 is that it will dramatically increase the rates of mental disorder and cheapen the currency of psychiatric diagnosis. The DSM 5 proposals do this two ways: 1) by ...
Overall, there will be fewer symptoms and disorders listed in the new psychiatry manual. Axel Buhrmann MATTERS OF THE MIND – a series which examines the clinician’s bible for diagnosing mental ...
Have neuroscience and genetic findings contributed to DSM.5 (the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)? B. J. Casey and Francis S. Lee. DSM-5 is a revision from ...