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What is happening in psychiatric diagnosis?

Lucy Johnstone and Amy Miners consider why the current approaches to mental health are failing

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There have been some extraordinary developments in the field of mental health following the publication of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). This enormous book is sometimes described as the ‘psychiatrists’ Bible’ and lists all of the 300 plus categories of mental illness.

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