On Saturday, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) finalized a 13-year process of revising the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, commonly known as the DSM, the most important ...

If you wanted to make a list of important books you should read, what would you choose? Anna Karenina, maybe? The Bible? How about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders? It may not ...

Diagnoses are a combination of social conditions and medical symptoms A new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual eliminates some mental disorders while including new criteria for ...

DSM 5 sells at a price gouging $200/copy. The American Psychiatric Associations has assumed that it has a fully captive audience of people who will feel compelled to buy DSM 5 for coding and ...

From its humble beginnings in 1952, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders continues to grow, both in thickness and influence. Published by the American Psychiatric Association, the ...