Psychiatry failure

摘要

"A Horrible wasted opportunity." That's how Jonathan Shedler of the University of Colorado in Denver described the next edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). After more than five years of wrangling, it seems that psychiatrists have failed to reach consensus on what qualifies as a personality problem. DSM-5 won't include a planned overhaul of the way in which personality disorders are diagnosed. The system in the current manual, which dates from 1994, is seriously flawed.