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 ...

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 ...

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a tool used by healthcare professionals to diagnose, classify, and understand mental health conditions. The DSM standardizes criteria ...

Anxiety disorders constitute the largest group of mental disorders in most western societies and are a leading cause of disability. The essential features of anxiety disorders are excessive and ...

Dr. Kupfer Defends DSM-5 DSM-5 Task Force Chair Dr. David Kupfer responds to criticisms that publishing a new edition of the manual next year might be jumping the gun. Medscape Psychiatry, June 01, ...

The newly revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association—DSM 5—has just been released at the Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco. Not since the critics ...

Abstract: The DSM classification system has long been criticized for insufficiently prioritizing scientific accuracy by inserting social values. Naturalists imply that the DSM should define disorders ...