Posts Tagged ‘DSM-5’

The Draft Revisions for DSM-5: Dimensional Assessment

Written by John on February 23rd, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by Onkel_Wart at Flickr Like many, I’ve been worried that the revision of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the source for all our diagnoses, could lead to what’s been called the medicalization of normality. But there are even more fundamental problems inherent in the classification system itself. It slots you [...]

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Tags: depression, diagnosis, dimensional assessment, DSM-5, mental disorder, psychiatry
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What’s in a (DSM Diagnostic) Name?

Written by John on July 17th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by Tom(hmm a rosa tint) at Flickr When I started getting a diagnosis of “depression” years ago, I found myself assuming that this was the name for a permanent condition rather than one dimension in the changing nature of an unfolding life. Later, the term became more formalized as “major depressive disorder [...]

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Tags: classification, continuum model, diagnosis, Dr. Steven Hyman, DSM-5, DSM-IV, hope, mental disorder, Recovery, remission, spectrum, Spectrum Project
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