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How the DSM-5 has come to grief

"The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM-5 is about to be published and there has been increasing public and professional concern about the DSM-5 system 'pathologising' normal human states," says Scientia Professor Gordon Parker, from UNSW's School of Psychiatry.

"Particularly controversial is the DSM-5 proposal that grief be included as a depressive disorder, a development that could lead to "unhappy" people being treated with antidepressants or antipsychotic drugs, says Professor Parker, the founding executive director of the Black Dog Institute...."
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-dsm-grief.html

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