Psychiatry in Crisis! Mental Health Director Rejects Psychiatric "Bible" and Replaces With Nothing

What is mental illness? Schizophrenia? Autism? Bipolar disorder? Depression? Since the 1950s, the profession of psychiatry has attempted to provide definitive answers to these questions in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders . Often called The Bible of psychiatry, the DSM serves as the ultimate authority for diagnosis, treatment and insurance coverage of mental illness. Now, in a move sure to rock psychiatry, psychology and other fields that address mental illness, the director of the National Institutes of Mental Health has announced that the federal agency--which provides grants for research on mental illness--will be " re-orienting its research away from DSM categories ." Thomas Insel's statement comes just weeks before the scheduled publication of the DSM-V , the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual . Insel writes: [More]