Has the DSM Failed?
Current Practice in Medical Science Vol. 9,
16 August 2022
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Page 187-196
https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/cpms/v9/6743F
Abstract
The DSM’s atheoretical and consensus-driven diagnostic classification system has become increasingly problematic to implement into clinical practice, by creating diagnostic confusion between diagnoses. . Neither has it properly incorporated decades of research on etiology, in order to inform diagnostic clarity. Instead it instructs clinicians to use algorithmic/iterative methods of making diagnoses, contrary to longstanding clinical training traditions.., Academic institutions in the United States are now mostly reliant on the DSM. making it a paradoxical impediment to the authentic understanding of psychiatric disorders as well as their treatments.
- DSM
- psychiatric disorders
- schizophrenia
- etiological factors