This is the title of a disturbing commentary written by the leaders of the DSM 5 Task Force and published in this month's American Journal of Psychiatry. The contents suggest that we must lower our ...

Clinical situations that child psychiatrists too frequently encounter in the inner cities resemble this composite case of a young school-aged child born to a drug-addicted mother and living with her ...

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?

Have neuroscience and genetic findings contributed to DSM.5 (the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)? B. J. Casey and Francis S. Lee. DSM-5 is a revision from ...