Depressive Disorders

Psychologists fear US manual will widen mental illness diagnosis

10 Feb 2012

Mental disorders listed in publication that should not exists, warn UK experts Hundreds of thousands of people will be labelled mentally ill because of behaviour most people would consider normal, if a new edition of what has been termed the psychiatrists' diagnostic bible goes ahead, experts are warning. Psychiatrists and psychologists in the UK are speaking out against the publishing of DSM-5 ...

Shyness a Mental Illness? Dangerous New Diagnostic Tests

9 Feb 2012

COMMENTARY | According to the newly revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, you are probably suffering from a mental illness. Millions of normal, healthy people would be wrongly labeled mentally ill if the new international diagnostic manual's checklists are followed.

New mental health manual is "dangerous" say experts

9 Feb 2012

LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of healthy people - including shy or defiant children, grieving relatives and people with fetishes - may be wrongly labeled mentally ill by a new international diagnostic manual, specialists said on Thursday. In a damning analysis of an upcoming revision of the influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), psychologists, psychiatrists and ...