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Editorial “One manual shouldn’t dictate US mental health research“
WELCOME to the future of psychiatric diagnosis. It will be based on science, and will look nothing like today’s . The DSM, the profession’s “bible”, has dominated medicine’s approach to mental illness for 60 years.
On 29 April, , director of world’s biggest funding agency for research into mental illness, advocated a major shift away from categorising psychiatric disorders according to a person’s symptoms. This approach has given us labels like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression.…
