The DSM coding system works primarily for the benefit of insurance carriers and the business of medicine. It is not designed or intended be for a person’s benefit.

The DSM Classification System: More Harmful Than Helpful? It is time to rethink our approach to mental health. Posted December 31, 2019 | Reviewed by Lybi Ma ...

Both the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5), and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Edition (ICD-10 ...

In many cases, changes to the DSM classification of gambling disorders are happening because of research funded by the industry, not in spite of it.

The “DSM” is the American Psychiatric Association’s influential classification manual of mental health problems. Since its revolutionary third edition in 1980, each major DSM revision has been ...

According to the previous definition, a child manifesting 6 out of those 12 behaviors was diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. According to the DSM-5, however, in order to be diagnosed with ...

Michael Strand, Where do classifications come from? The DSM-III, the transformation of American psychiatry, and the problem of origins in the sociology of knowledge, Theory and Society, Vol. 40, No. 3 ...

Tourette syndrome has been classified by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) into various sub-groups. Definitions and classifications are also offered by the World ...

“The DSM classifications were originally instituted for research diagnoses, so that when researchers did their various studies everybody would be talking about the same thing when they were making a ...