DSM-V, "bible" of mental disorders, due out May 22, but it's losing faithful. May 14, 2012— -- Since the 1970s, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, has reigned as the ...

PTSD is an official DSM-5 diagnosis and is rooted in exposure to threatened or actual death or serious injury. EMS clinicians may develop PTSD after violent calls, major incidents, or graphic trauma.

This post is in response to American Psychiatry Is Facing "Civil War" over Its Diagnostic Manual By Christopher Lane Ph.D. The fight over the new psychiatric manual, DSM-V, has escalated. The conflict ...

On May 14, Dr. Keith Ablow, a Fox News contributor and practicing psychiatrist, posted comments on the Fox News website about the American Psychiatric Association and its current revision of the ...

The fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders hits shelves on May 22, and with it, a slew of new mental-disorder diagnoses.

So far, opposition to DSM 5 has been expressed by the following organizations: British Psychological Society; American Counseling Association; Society for Humanistic Psychology (APA Division 32); ...

June 14, 2007 — The feasibility of and need for including dimensions as well as categories of mental disorders in the fifth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) classification ...

Mental illness has ruptured across our species, plaguing the people we know and love and hurting those all around us. You have probably heard of some of them: obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), ...

There’s an awful lot of money to be made from compulsive shopping, judging by the career of Madeleine Wickham. Her Shopaholic series, written under the pen name Sophie Kinsella, is required reading ...

June 17, 2011 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) — The upcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), may include revisions for diagnosing mixed episodes while keeping ...

Starting next year, the process of diagnosing autism may see drastic changes following the revision of the official guide to classifying psychiatric illnesses. After years of reviewing and refining ...