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DSM-V New Revised EDITION “

“These changes that are going to happen by May, 2013′ are going to surprise you” Published ”Scientific American Mind”
Written by: Ferris Jabr:
The DSM ( Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ), has not been up dated for 30 years now. These changes just might surprise you. Stated on the cover of this Article “Redefining Mental Illness.” In 2010′ American Psychiatric Association debuted a draft of the new manual on their Web Site that has so far received 50 million hits from about 500,000 individuals, many of them critics.
The revised manual will very likely scrap Psychiatry staples such as “Asperger’s syndrome and paranoid personality disorder.
Additions to the diagnostic manual are likely to include an ailment for children marked by severe temper tantrums and for adults a type of sex addiction.
The DSM-5 framers are scrapping certain disorders, such as Asperger’s and adding brand – new ones including addiction to gambling.
Psychiatrists have long come under fire for over diagnosing certain aliments, especially in children, and doing out medications as freely as lollipops. Giving childhood Bipolar Disorder a new name and defining a syndrome of early psychosis may only intensify the problem.
To make its new diagnostic manual easier to use, the American Psychiatric Association organized the book’s contents chronologically, starting with diseases that most often appear in childhood and covering adult disorders toward the back.
Curators of the new book eliminated over a dozen less distinct disorders, sometimes merging them into larger categories.
Experts traditionally reserved the term “addiction” for drug related problems. Now they are recognizing other types of addictive behaviors. Food, sex, and gambling addictions are likely to make their debut in the latest edition of psychiatry’s diagnostic bible.
“The DSM has always been a primitive guide to the world of Psychological stress, but the categories have become more reliable and meaningful.”