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 ...

DSM-V, "bible" of mental disorders, due out May 22, but it's losing faithful. May 14, 2012— -- Since the 1970s, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, has reigned as the ...

As a biographer, I spend my days trying to get inside the heads of my dead subjects. To bring them back to life, I must try to figure out what made them tick. It's an inexact science. After gathering ...

In the DSM-5, what used to be called “Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, and Other Cognitive Disorders” is now named “Neurocognitive Disorders.” The new classification was introduced to distinguish ...

June 14, 2007 — The feasibility of and need for including dimensions as well as categories of mental disorders in the fifth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) classification ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects about one out of every fifty school children. However, according to the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-5) Autism ...

The simple-mindedness and lack of internal consistency of these passionately venomous critics is astounding. Although the DSM-5 is a symptomatic classification system, based on clusters of clinical ...

The publication of the fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) in 2013 raises important questions for clinical trials and associated regulatory decisions on ...

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 ...

Narcissists, much to the surprise of many experts, are in the process of becoming an endangered species. Not that they face imminent extinction it’s a fate much worse than that. They will still be ...