Tag: diagnostic reliability

The New DSM Is Coming and That Isnā€™t Good News

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Binge Eating Disorder is one of many invalid diagnoses weā€™ll continue to receive as a result of the APAā€™s failure to correct the mistakes of past versions of the DSM.

Large-Scale Study Reveals Arbitrariness of DSM Depression Diagnosis

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A new study on the depression symptoms of over three-thousand patients challenges the criteria used for diagnosing major depression with the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5). Current diagnostic systems are based on an assumption that the symptoms of depression point to a common underlying ā€œillness," but research suggests that this framework may be outdated and oversimplified.