DSM-5 Proposed Draft

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Originally Posted by puregrrl

They are also adding some diagnoses and specifiers to the Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders category. These changes include removing subtypes with schizophrenia...all I have to say is wow. Schizophrenia exhibits itself in different ways with people and they are wanting to remove the specifiers. I need to find some literature as to why they are proposing this because I am just dumbfounded.

By the time I retired my practice, I had stopped accepting insurance, just went to a sliding scale.

I so agree with you about the removal of subtypes with schizophrenia! I am looking for some literature also. What I hope I don't find is influence by the health-care insurance carriers or major pharmaceutical companies over the APA. Wouldn't be the first time, however.....

Frankly, the passage of health-care reform could end up playing a major role with the DSM revisions. I wish I wasn’t so cynical about how revisions to the DSM are so blatantly political and economic, but, I remain feeling this way. If there ever are changes in the very classist /political structure of how and why the APA forms the revision committees, I may have a change of heart.