The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a tool used by healthcare professionals to diagnose, classify, and understand mental health conditions. The DSM standardizes criteria ...

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 ...

A new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual eliminates some mental disorders while including new criteria for diagnosing other conditions. Does it actually matter how we name illnesses?

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 ...

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 ...