The DSM is a diagnostic tool that standardizes symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment for mental disorders. However, there are ...

Researchers are looking for ways to better conceptualize mental illnesses and reflect the natural variance clinicians see in ...

The work is published in the journal Clinical Psychological Science. For nearly 75 years, the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health" (DSM) has been the go-to text for diagnosing ...

The DSM-5 is the most recent edition ... diagnosis is “true” or not. Standardized diagnostic procedures are necessary to reduce any bias in clinical judgment and lower the chance of misdiagnosis.

as described in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). [1] These subtypes of bipolar disorders cover a spectrum of severities, frequencies ...

How a marked rise in the treatment of certain conditions – physical and mental – is harming, not protecting, public health.

Over the past 15 years, alternatives to the DSM have emerged. One is the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology, or HiTOP. HiTOP is a grassroots project bringing together researchers from around ...