The psychosis section of DSM-5 contains errors in logic, oversights, and inconsistencies, however, and these should be addressed in future editions of the manual. The definition of delusions and the difference between a delusion and an obsession are particularly problematic....
Harm should not be a necessary criterion for mental disorder: some reflections on the DSM-5 definition of mental disorder Article 01 August 2019 Notes 1. If one counts DSM-III-R (1987) and DSM-IV-TR (2000), DSM-5 is the seventh edition. 2. This is a term of art with which we ...
it tends to be reified. …The mere fact that a diagnostic concept is listed in an official nomenclature and provided with an operational definition tends to encourage this insidious reification”. As we mentioned above, by operationalizing diagnosis, the DSMs since...
The thefts are not committed to express anger or vengeance, and are not consequences of a delusion or a hallucination. Thefts that are best explained by conduct disorder, mania, or antisocial personality disorder are excluded from the diagnosis.1 Patients with kleptomania experience increasing tension...
Although they are closer to the psychoanalytical model in the new conception proposed for personality disorders, they are in some respects surprisingly distant: the paranoia disorder has disappeared and only certain of its indicators are maintained (such as persecutory delusion) in an excessively wide...
DSM-5BizarrePsychotic symptoms are a central element in the diagnosis of schizophrenia, although their precise definition has varied through the multiple iterations of \\\{DSM\\\} and the ICD. Schneiderian first-rank symptoms (FRS) have received a particularly prominent position in the diagnostic c...