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Still, the launch of dsm5.org - where suggested changes to the DSM were posted Feb. 10 for public comment - is a major step. Here are five ways the APA is proposing to address major criticisms of older versions of the book...
...Contain the definition of a mental illness within sensible borders. A major problem with earlier versions was mission creep: In 1980, the APA published DSM-III, which radically expanded what clinicians could define as disordered. One example: depression. The pre-1980 definition had described "depressive neurosis" as "an excessive reaction of depression due to an internal conflict or to an identifiable event such as the loss of a love object." The much longer 1980 definition (which carried on into DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR, with slight modifications) omitted the requirement that symptoms be "excessive" in proportion to cause...
...diagnosed with major depressive disorder today, you need have only five symptoms for two weeks, which can include such common problems as depressed mood, weight gain, insomnia, fatigue and indecisiveness. The current DSM does make an exception for bereavement: if you recently lost a loved one, such symptoms are not considered disordered. But the manual doesn't make exceptions for other things that make us sad - divorce, financial stress, a life-threatening illness...
...months, NATO officers were signaling a major assault on Marja, hoping that that this tactic would draw the Taliban out of the heavily populated areas around the Helmand River - a major opium poppy growing area and a source of Taliban funds - and enable coalition and Afghan forces to re-capture and establish government control over this major Taliban bastion without causing too many civilian casualties...
...first annual “Harvard Thinks Big” event, spearheaded by two students with the help of three major student groups, 10 professors from various fields were brought together to speak for 10 minutes each about their areas of expertise...