Revising Book on Disorders of the Mind

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Revising Book on Disorders of the Mind

By BENEDICT CAREY
Published: February 10, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/health/10psych.html

These are a few of the changes proposed on Tuesday by doctors charged with revising psychiatry's encyclopedia of mental disorders, the guidebook that largely determines where society draws the line between normal and not normal, between eccentricity and illness, between self-indulgence and self-destruction — and, by extension, when and how patients should be treated.

The eagerly awaited revisions — to be published, if adopted, in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, due in 2013 — would be the first in a decade.

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Revising the book on mental illness
Experts call for listing binge eating and gambling as official disorders, but not sex addiction or obesity.
By Shari Roan

February 10, 2010

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-dsm10-2010feb10,0,2650262.story

After years of research, professional infighting and maneuvering from various interest groups, the nation's psychiatrists Tuesday unveiled proposed changes to the manual used to diagnose and treat mental disorders around the world.

The draft document, released by the American Psychiatric Assn., for the first time calls for binge-eating and gambling to be considered disorders, opening the way for insurance coverage of these problems. But it refrains from suggesting a formal diagnosis for obesity, Internet addiction or sex addiction, as some professionals had proposed.

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DSM-V Draft Promises Big Changes in Some Psychiatric Diagnoses
By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today
Published: February 10, 2010

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/GeneralPsychiatry/18399

Gender Identity Disorder Stays

A closely watched issue in the DSM-V revision has been whether to change or do away with gender identity disorder, now listed in DSM-IV. At this point, the draft retains the designation but with some changes, officials said.

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William Narrow, MD, the APA's research director for DSM-V, told reporters that the draft does remove the term "disorder" from the condition when applied to children, renaming it as "gender incongruence."

For adults, gender identity disorder will remain in DSM-V but with substantially altered diagnostic criteria, Narrow said.