The world of treatment for mental illness is reeling. We are in the process of rethinking everything—well, almost everything—that has to do with the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness.
For example, this summer, following the release of the American Psychiatric Association’s new manual of diagnostic categories, the DSM 5, the National Institute of Mental Health (a part of the U.S. government’s National Institutes of Health) said it was abandoning the DSM’s diagnostic categories completely and starting from scratch to figure out what is and what isn’t a mental illness.
So next time someone mentions their “diagnosis,” think of it (more…)