PsycCRITIQUES - TEST: Let’s Help Psychiatry Get Back on the Right Track . . . Again!
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The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5), psychiatry’s guidebook for mental health professionals, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical houses, makes a retrogressive return to earlier times in its core assumptions, a change that most commentators on the manual consider to render it far less productive and clinically useful than its prior versions, the DSM–III (American Psychiatric Association, 1980) and DSM–IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). What makes the DSM–5 so retrogressive?
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