On May 14, Dr. Keith Ablow, a Fox News contributor and practicing psychiatrist, posted comments on the Fox News website about the American Psychiatric Association and its current revision of the ...

This post is in response to American Psychiatry Is Facing "Civil War" over Its Diagnostic Manual By Christopher Lane Ph.D. The fight over the new psychiatric manual, DSM-V, has escalated. The conflict ...

The fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders hits shelves on May 22, and with it, a slew of new mental-disorder diagnoses.

So far, opposition to DSM 5 has been expressed by the following organizations: British Psychological Society; American Counseling Association; Society for Humanistic Psychology (APA Division 32); ...

The American Psychiatric Association is about to release an updated version of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The DSM helps mental health professionals decide who has ...

Beware the DSM-5, the soon-to-be-released fifth edition of the “psychiatric bible,” the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. The odds will probably be greater than 50 percent, according to the new ...

Substance use disorder is a treatable, chronic condition in which an individual has an addiction to using alcohol, tobacco, ...

During a presentation at the US Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress in New Orleans, Louisiana, Mark Zimmerman, MD, said studies show that the presence of a comorbid disorder or specific symptom ...

Excerpted from "The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum." This piece was written prior to the publication of the new DSM-5, but Grandin anticipated much of the thinking in the new edition. I ...