Friday, October 21, 2011

Road map to mental illness is being redrawn, reshaping categories and research targets

By Chicago Tribune

When psychiatrists diagnose mental illness, they turn to an unwieldy book called the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders," or DSM for short.

First published in 1952, the tome also is used as a standard by researchers, the health insurance industry and pharmaceutical companies.

But the American Psychiatry Association is now in the middle of a historic and

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