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Editorial “One manual shouldn’t dictate US mental health research“
WELCOME to the future of psychiatric diagnosis. It will be based on science, and will look nothing like today’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The DSM, the profession’s “bible”, has dominated medicine’s approach to mental illness for 60 years.
On 29 April, Thomas Insel, director of world’s biggest funding agency for research into mental illness, advocated a major shift away from categorising psychiatric disorders according to a person’s symptoms. This approach has given us labels like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression.…
