Rethinking the Classification of Mental Illness

The new Diag­nos­tic and Sta­tis­ti­cal Man­u­al of Men­tal Dis­or­ders (DSM‑5) is sched­uled to be released in May 2013. This recent Dana Foun­da­tion arti­cle points out the need of a fun­da­men­tal­ly dif­fer­ent approach based on the new ways researchers use to study and under­stand men­tal ill­ness. The prob­lem with the DSM-IV, our cur­rent shared diag­nos­tic language,…

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