The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the compilation of ten years of work by the American Psychiatric Association, representing the efforts of hundreds of high-level ...

The American Psychiatric Association’s DSM Steering Committee has proposed clarifying how severity specifiers are applied to autism spectrum disorder in the DSM-5-TR, recommending separate coding for ...

Reading a story in the paper the other day about various psychiatric diagnoses being lobbed at current and former people in power, I couldn’t help but concede that the DSM-5, the Diagnostic and ...

Psychiatric classifications catalogue the many forms of mental ill-health. They define what counts as a disorder and who counts as disordered, drawing the boundary between psychological normality and ...

ICSD-3-TR preferentially excludes other sleep disorders, substance use, and sleep-related behaviors, while DSM-5-TR more ...

Explore the impact of mental health labels—do they validate experiences or perpetuate stigma and hinder treatment?

Abstract: The DSM classification system has long been criticized for insufficiently prioritizing scientific accuracy by inserting social values. Naturalists imply that the DSM should define disorders ...