The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the compilation of ten years of work by the American Psychiatric Association, representing the efforts of hundreds of high-level ...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects about one out of every fifty school children. However, according to the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-5) Autism ...
As a biographer, I spend my days trying to get inside the heads of my dead subjects. To bring them back to life, I must try to figure out what made them tick. It's an inexact science. After gathering ...
The simple-mindedness and lack of internal consistency of these passionately venomous critics is astounding. Although the DSM-5 is a symptomatic classification system, based on clusters of clinical ...
If you wanted to make a list of important books you should read, what would you choose? Anna Karenina, maybe? The Bible? How about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders? It may not ...