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 ...

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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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...