1 Boring Old Man does a status analysis of the DSM-5, finding that the DSM-5 has moved beyond the restraint of earlier versions, which were meant only to reliably describe conditions without any a priori assumptions, venturing instead into assumptions about etiology and pathophysiology that were based on an assumption of biological causation.
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