Last week, I had a brief, but heated debate with a friend who is on the DSM 5 Task Force. He is strongly supporting a proposed new diagnosis for DSM 5 that I oppose just as strongly. Surprisingly, I ...

The $3 million DSM 5 Field Trials have been a pure disaster from start to finish. First, there was the poor choice of design. The study restricted itself to reliability – the measurement of diagnostic ...

Amid ongoing concerns over conflicts of interest, a new study found that 60% of the physicians who served as panel and task force members for the American Psychiatric Association’s official manual of ...

This study contrasts the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV) criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) between 291 psychiatrists and 40 ...