Benedict Carey at The New York Times has done a nice job threading his way through the complexities and controversies surrounding the approval of the new edition of the psychiatrists' diagnostic manual, known as the DSM-5...
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Benedict Carey at The New York Times has done a nice job threading his way through the complexities and controversies surrounding the approval of the new edition of the psychiatrists' diagnostic manual, known as the DSM-5. In a story headlined "A Tense Compromise on Defining Disorders," he focuses on three revisions that caused particular concern among both professionals and activists. Those revisions concerned the diagnosis of depression, autism, and pediatric bipolar disorder.
He explains the changes and the significance of those changes. In each case, the revisions could mean that some people diagnosed with those disorders by the criteria in DSM-4 will no longer have them when evaluated by the criteria in the DSM-5. And, he notes, the reverse is...
The new diagnostic manual being prepared...
The new diagnostic manual being prepared by the American Psychiatric Association, known as the DSM-5, has been the subject of enormous controversy. See this chronicle of the controversy from Psychology Today a couple of years ago, and this from The Huffington Post just a few weeks ago. A Google search will bury you in stories.
So the American Psychiatric Association, which is preparing the manual for publication in May, 2013, should be accustomed to criticism. And isn't that the...
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