What You Need To Know About Creating The DSM-5

I was surfing online this week when I ran across Gary Greenberg’s article, Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness, and Jason Sullum’s article, There is No Definition of Mental Disorder.  If you use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or you have an interest in how diagnoses are created, these are must-reads along with Paula Caplan’s book, Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis.