A new study finds no evidence of diagnostic inflation in the last four editions of the DSM.
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Autism has gone from a rare disorder to one that affects one in 68 children in a few decades.
Since it was first published in 1952, the DSM has been the has been the diagnostic bible for many psychiatrists. Each time the manual is updated, new conditions are introduced, often amid much controversy…
MEDICAL HISTORIES - The third article in our short series discusses the long history of culture-based understandings of mental illnesses. Culture has been taken more seriously by psychiatrists since the…
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