A new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual eliminates some mental disorders while including new criteria for diagnosing other conditions. Does it actually matter how we name illnesses?

On Saturday, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) finalized a 13-year process of revising the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, commonly known as the DSM, the most important ...

DSM 5 sells at a price gouging $200/copy. The American Psychiatric Associations has assumed that it has a fully captive audience of people who will feel compelled to buy DSM 5 for coding and ...

If you wanted to make a list of important books you should read, what would you choose? Anna Karenina, maybe? The Bible? How about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders? It may not ...

DSM-5 made a mistake when it joined together into one big, heterogeneous category ('Substance Use Disorder') what in DSM IV had been two quite different diagnoses ('Substance Abuse' and 'Substance ...

From its humble beginnings in 1952, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders continues to grow, both in thickness and influence. Published by the American Psychiatric Association, the ...

THE DIAGNOSTIC and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, universally known as the DSM, has for the past six decades defined "normal" by providing categories for "abnormal." Although it has changed ...

This month the American Psychiatric Association announced the names of “working group” members who will guide the development of the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, ...

The new edition of the DSM replaces DSM-IV, which appeared in 1994. The DSM is the standard – and standardising – work of reference issued by the American Psychiatric Association, but its influence ...

Diagnoses are a combination of social conditions and medical symptoms A new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual eliminates some mental disorders while including new criteria for ...