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Making the Dsm-5: Concepts and Controversies

Making the Dsm-5: Concepts and Controversies

Paperback

Medical ReferenceGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1461465036
ISBN13: 9781461465034
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: May 17 2013
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association published the 5th edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Often referred to as the bible of psychiatry, the manual only classifies mental disorders and does not explain them or guide their treatment. While science should be the basis of any diagnostic system, to date, there is no knowledge on whether most conditions listed in the manual are true diseases. Moreover, in DSM-5 the overall definition of mental disorder is weak, failing to distinguish psychopathology from normality. In spite of all the progress that has been made in neuroscience over the last few decades, the psychiatric community is no closer to understanding the etiology and pathogenesis of mental disorders than it was fifty years ago.

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