Symmetrical treatment of “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition”, for major depressive disorders

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fifth edition, and the impact of events scale-revised.

We read with great interest the article by Bienvenu et al 1 in a recent issue of CHEST (July 2013) and would like to compliment them on the development and validation of the Impact of Events Scale-Revised (IES-R) for patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after acute lung injury. Psychiatric nosology and diagnostic classifi cation systems are always dynamic and in a state of fl ux. ...

Catatonia in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition.

Andrew Francis, PhD, MD,* Max Fink, MD,* Francisco Appiani, MD,Þ Aksel Bertelsen, MD,þ Tom G. Bolwig, MD, DMSc,§ Peter Bräunig, MD,|| Stanley N. Caroff, MD,¶ Brendan T. Carroll, MD,# Andrea Eugenio Cavanna, MD,** David Cohen, MD, PhD,ÞÞ Olivier Cottencin, MD, PhD,þþ Manuel J. Cuesta, MD,§§ Jessica Daniels, MD,|||| Dirk Dhossche, MD, PhD,¶¶ Gregory L. Fricchione, MD,## Gabor Gazdag, MD, PhD,*** ...

A Warm Welcome to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition?

UNLABELLED The present article discusses the reaction of psychiatric professionals and specifically the academia in Iran to the publication of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, (DSM-5). It is argued that the reaction to changes and the approach of the new revision of DSM has been neither technical, nor emotional. This argument has further been examined fo...

Diagnostic categories or dimensions? A question for the Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders--fifth edition.

The question of whether mental disorders are discrete clinical conditions or arbitrary distinctions along dimensions of functioning is a long-standing issue, but its importance is escalating with the growing recognition of the frustrations and limitations engendered by the categorical model. The authors provide an overview of some of the dilemmas of the categorical model, followed by a discussi...

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.