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 ...
Jablensky [30] writes, “…once a diagnostic concept like schizophrenia has been ‘operationalised’ for general use, 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 insi...