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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) is a manual used to diagnose mental health conditions, and it formerly listed homosexuality as a disorder.
DSM-5 distinguishes having an atypical sexual interest (paraphilia) from having a mental disorder; under DSM-5 an adult who is sexually attracted to prepubescent children does not automatically meet c...
A broad set of clinicians, commentators and analysts have identified recurring patterns in ’s public behavior that map onto —grandiosity, entitlement, need for admiration—and to antisocial and paranoi...
The ethical debate over adding —an adult erotic preference for pubescent adolescents—to psychiatric manuals centers on two competing imperatives: accurate, evidence-based diagnosis that aids treatment...
No — the does not say that pedophilia (the sexual interest in prepubescent children) is automatically, in every instance, a mental disorder; the manual distinguishes between an atypical sexual interes...
A number of mental‑health professionals, groups and books have publicly analyzed and judged ’s psychology and cognition, but the literature consists mainly of invited panels, opinion collections, peti...
A clear differential between dissociative identity presentations (DID) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) rests less on a single test and more on a multimodal, structured assessment strategy: v...