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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

A new name for PTSD could reduce stigma among veterans

Health & Medicine

Thousands of American soldiers suffer from the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD, yet many of them don’t seek help. Mental health professionals are hoping changing the name of PTSD will stamp out a stigma and encourage more veterans to request treatment.

Mental disorders reclassified

Health & Medicine

Defining Normal After a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

The DSM and Mental Health in America

Addicted to the Internet? That May Soon Be a Psychological Disorder

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The DSM gets a makeover

Arts, Culture & Media

By 2012, the American Psychiatric Association hopes to have published a new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Proposed changes are already being challenged.

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