The DSM-5-TR is Big Pharma’s official guide for mental health illnesses, syndromes, diagnoses, and treatment protocols across ...

SAN FRANCISCO — After more than a decade of development and more than 2 years of frequently searing controversy, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) ...

Each month, Clinical Advisor makes one new clinical feature available ahead of print. Don’t forget to take the poll. The results will be published in the next month’s issue. The fifth edition of the ...

The inclusion of the new somatic symptom disorder category in the soon-to-be-released Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) continues to spark heated debate in ...

Despite oft-heard complaints, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) continues to be the primary diagnostic manual used by mental health professionals. However, in the last ...

There has been a heated controversy about the DSM-5 proposal to redefine autism. Will its dramatic changes in definition result in dramatic changes in who gets diagnosed and will this cause a big ...

My biggest concern regarding DSM-5 is that it will dramatically increase the rates of mental disorder and cheapen the currency of psychiatric diagnosis. The DSM-5 proposals do this two ways: 1) by ...

Arthur Caplan is the director of the division of medical ethics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. The newly revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association—DSM ...

Anxious distress specifier. Individuals with the diagnosis of a depressive or bipolar disorder can have the specifier “with anxious distress” added.
 Social anxiety disorder (SAD). The features of ...