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 ...

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) ...

Psychiatric classifications catalogue the many forms of mental ill-health. They define what counts as a disorder and who counts as disordered, drawing the boundary between psychological normality and ...

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 ...