A Brewing Crisis: DSM-5

There is a brewing crisis in the mental health field: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders--the book that defines and organizes constellations of symptoms into categories with names we call a diagnosis is undergoing a revision. The reversion called DSM-5 (we are currently using the DM-IV published in 1994) is expected May, 2013. The contents of the revision will have widespread implications for the health, wellbeing, culture, and economics of our world for years into the … [Read more...]