Friday 2 December 2011

New DSM may encourage overtreatment, psychologists say

The "bible"of American psychiatry — a manual of mental health used around the world by doctors, consumers and insurance providers — has come under fire from a growing group of psychologists who worry that proposed revisions will feed into a culture of overdiagnosing, and overtreating, otherwise ...


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