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Controversy over DSM-5: new mental health guide
“Doctors in dispute: What exactly is normal human behaviour?”, wrote The Independent, while The Observer said: “Psychiatrists under fire in mental health battle.” These headlines focused on a new version of a major guide to mental health that was published in May 2013 amid a storm of controversy and bitter criticism. Fourteen years in the writing (and according to one psychiatrist, “thick enough to stop a bullet”) the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s “D