The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a tool used by healthcare professionals to diagnose, classify, and understand mental health conditions. The DSM standardizes criteria ...

Explore the impact of mental health labels—do they validate experiences or perpetuate stigma and hinder treatment?

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, commonly referred to as the DSM, has been psychiatry’s “bible” since 1952. As a clinical psychology graduate student in the early 2000s, I ...

DSM-5 stirred great public and professional controversy because it was so carelessly done and included so many obvious mistakes. At the time, the American Psychiatric Association tried to appease ...

According to a Rutgers study published earlier this year, autism rates in the US have increased some 500% over the past 16 years. But is the rise in autism really the result of better screening, or ...

Incidence in teen girls and young women surpassed that of same-age males for first time ...