The next version of the DSM is being planned with some potentially major changes. Will we get a giant leap forward or just ...

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The American Psychiatric Association announced Wednesday that it is radically reconceptualizing the main manual that ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) in a recent publication revealed that there are approximately 1 billion people suffering ...

A diagnosis can help you understand how you struggle. It can point you toward resources, connect you with others who share ...

Leaders of the D.S.M., the world’s most influential psychiatric manual, have been split for more than five years over whether ...

Brevard County first responders are finding new ways to process trauma, manage stress and support one another.

The World Mental Health Survey Consortium, a project that provides the data-driven backbone for international health policy, is now anchored at the University of Michigan—the institution where its ...

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has extended the deadline for public feedback on the Behavioral ...

What few people, regardless of their politics, ever think to ask is: What is a “mental disorder”? The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), “the bible” of the American ...

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