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 ...

This is the saddest moment in my 45-year career of studying, practicing, and teaching psychiatry. The Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association has given its final approval to a deeply ...

The DSM manual consists of descriptions, symptoms, and other principles that help clinicians to diagnose and classify psychological disorders. Apart from the classification of content, DSM-5 also ...

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 ...