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This new edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders, is the product of more than 10 years of effort by hundreds of international experts in all aspects of mental health. Their dedication and hard work have yielded an authoritative volume that defines and classifies mental disorders in order to improve diagnoses, treatment, and research. This manual, which creates a common language for clinicians involved in the diagnosis of mental disorders, includes concise and specific criteria intended to facilitate an objective assessment of symptom presentations in a variety of clinical settings inpatient, outpatient, partial hospital, consultation-liaison, clinical, private practice, and primary care. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, is the most comprehensive, current, and critical resource for clinical practice available to today's mental health clinicians and researchers of all orientations. The information contained in the manual is also valuable to other physicians and health professionals, including psychologists, counselors, nurses, and occupational and rehabilitation therapists, as well as social workers and forensic and legal specialists. DSM-5 is the most definitive resource for the diagnosis and classification of mental disorders.

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The more things change...
There are a few minor and almost no major changes in DSM-5 that the patients and professional need to be aware of.

1. The most remarkable structural change of the Fifth Edition is getting rid of 5-axial system. Good riddance!
The old classification grouped diagnoses down into independent dimensions called axes:
Axis I: all diagnoses except mental retardation and personality disorder
Axis II: personality disorders and mental retardation
Axis III: acute medical conditions
Axis IV: psychosocial and environmental factors making things worse
Axis V: Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF), or a number between 0 and 100 that reflects patients' well-being.
The new classification combines the axes together and let them rate the disorders by severity. In addition the NOS (not otherwise specified) label is changed to NED (not elsewhere defined).
2. The diagnosis Mental Retardation is changed to intellectual disability (intellectual...
Relax, it's not as awful as people fear- but it still is disappointing, and somewhat problematic.
Nearly all of the media criticisms of DSM-5 are fairly wide off the mark. The main critique is that psychiatry is trying to pathologize increasing amounts of normal human behavior with the DSM-5. The new diagnoses in DSM-5 are modest, evidence-based, and are ways of better describing the types of problems that people come into psychiatrists' and psychologists' offices asking for help with.
For example, the diagnosis of Body Dysmorphic Disorder makes a distinction from "dysmorphic concern" (which is largely normative) and requires that the preoccupation interferes with social or occupational functioning, or causes clinically significant distress. That means: it is already a problem for the person, whether or not anyone makes it a diagnosis.

The main problem with the manual is actually that the changes were not bold enough, not forward thinking enough, and have resulted in very few improvements considering the huge amount of effort put into the enterprise...
The Next Phase of the DSM Evolution is Here
Ok, I have taken some time to actually read through DSM 5. While DSM has often been scrutinized--both for what it includes, as well as what it doesn't--the back-lash against the newest edition has been particularly pronounced these past few months. Part of this stems from the micro-analysis that happens with many things in our modern world, though we have to admit that ego, resentment, and a misunderstanding of the process also plays a part. In addition, historical debate over DSM typically took place in-house; that is, by clinicians. With DSM 5, this has broadened to people who have little- to no understanding of the diagnostic process, its purpose, and its strengths/limitations. Thus, there has been a lot of negative press about DSM 5 in Huffington Post, NY Times, and other sources, often by people with practically no understanding of mental health.

Why 5 stars, you might ask? Because my review is based on DSM 5 as a book, not anything else having to do with DSM as a...