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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Every month or so, someone (usually very smart and passionate) sends me a detailed proposal for a new diagnostic system offered as an alternative to the jumbled, pedestrian, atheoretical, and purely ...

The DSM-IV criteria used to define ‘With Atypical Features’ as a specifier for episodes of major depression and dysthymia are summarized in Table 1. The DSM-IV makes a distinction between a formal ...

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 ...

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 ...