The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the compilation of ten years of work by the American Psychiatric Association, representing the efforts of hundreds of high-level ...
Every month or so, someone (usually very smart and passionate) sends me a detailed proposal for a new diagnostic system offered as an alternative to the jumbled, pedestrian, atheoretical, and purely ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract When something serves a function, it is easy to overlook its origins. The tendency is to proceed directly to function and retroactively ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- The fifth edition of the "psychiatrist's bible" was officially released here in all its 947-page glory, with its developers offering a spirited rebuttal to their critics. Known as DSM ...
Cheryl Wetzstein’s recent article (“Psychiatrists’ list of new disorders: Are they crazy?” Page I, Tuesday) sheds light on a variety of important proposed changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical ...
Reading a story in the paper the other day about various psychiatric diagnoses being lobbed at current and former people in power, I couldn’t help but concede that the DSM-5, the Diagnostic and ...
Both the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5), and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Edition (ICD-10) ...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects about one out of every fifty school children. However, according to the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-5) Autism ...
Bipolar disorder (BP) is characterized by profound pathological mood swings from mania to depression, interspersed with periods of subsyndromal symptoms (that is, symptoms that are insufficient to ...