DSM-5 Proposed Draft

[AtLast]

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.

[Kätzchen]

I hope it’s okay to post this news article today about how difficult it is to nail down a certain type of, if any, diagnosis for the current person in the WH.

I found this article extremely informative.

The person who authored this news article is someone who helped publish the DSM back in 1978. His honesty is refreshing… and it helps me to better understand how incredibly hard it can be for anyone as a licensed professional in mental health is somehow constrained by the manual and axis used to categorically record certain conditions (etc).


LINK: https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/06/...ess-diagnosis/