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 ...
Mental health professionals use the DSM to standardize the diagnosis and treatment processes for mental health conditions, including types of depression. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ...
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 ...
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 ...