Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fifth Edition: Why will half the U.S. population have a mental illness?
Beware the DSM-5, the soon-to-be-released fifth edition of the “psychiatric bible,” the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. The odds will probably be...
Illustration by Robert Neubecker. Copy Link Share Share Comment Copy Link Share Share Comment Beware the DSM-5 , the soon-to-be-released fifth edition of the “psychiatric bible,” the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual . The odds will probably be greater than 50 percent, according to the new manual, that you’ll have a mental disorder in your lifetime. Although fewer than 6 percent of American adults will have a severe mental illness in a given year, according to a 2005 study , many more—more than a quarter each year—will have some diagnosable mental disorder. That’s a lot of people. Almost 50 pe
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