The book as written may be very different than the book as used.” The APA cited the need to
contain diagnostic inflation, and the need to address the “wealth” of advances in …

Clinical research on psychiatric diagnosis has failed from 1980 until now. In the DSM-III
onwards era, clinical nosology research has been irrelevant. Contrary to the claims made in …

We have arrived at our current descriptive classifications, with their many and varied array of
categories, through the committee processes of DSM and ICD. To date, expert opinion …

In May 2013 the American Psychiatric Association finally released the 5th edition of its
famous Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (short title: DSM-5). The …

The furore preceding the release of the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is in contrast to the incremental changes to several diagnostic …

It is often argued that successive editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (DSM) have relaxed diagnostic criteria and thereby inflated rates of diagnosis …

In a way, the current state of affairs would surpass Stengel's best expectations in the late
fifties as internationally adopted classifications (ICD/DSM) have indeed become psychiatry's …

There have been a striking diagnostic inflation and a corresponding increase in the use of
psychotropic drugs during the past 30 years. DSM-5, scheduled to appear in May 2013 …

A persuasive and passionate plea from two mental health professionals to ease use of the
Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders under their belief that it is leading to an …

I began my training in psychiatry in 1967, when Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)-I
was still the diagnostic system in use in the United States. The next year, DSM-II appeared …