Mental health professionals use the DSM to standardize the diagnosis and treatment processes for mental health conditions, including types of depression. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ...
Atypical features were incorporated into the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV, 1994) as an illness specifier for major depression and ...
DSM IV defines its atypical features depression modifier mainly by current symptoms. Relative to depressed patients with melancholic features, those with atypical features often present with earlier ...
This post was co-authored with Max Fink, M.D. There has been a lot of talk in the media about psychiatric diagnosis and what it's for. In The New York Times, psychiatrist Ronald Pies says that the ...
How can you tell if someone is depressed? Depression is too often reduced to a checklist of symptoms, revealed a new study. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) - the 'bible ...
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth version (DSM-IV) [31] classifies depressive disorders (unipolar depression) as MDD, dysthymia and unspecified depressive disorder.
This guideline makes recommendations on the identification, treatment and management of depression in adults aged 18 years and older who also have a chronic physical health problem (such as cancer, ...
June 14, 2007 — The feasibility of and need for including dimensions as well as categories of mental disorders in the fifth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) classification ...
The controversial revision to psychiatrists' "bible" of diagnostic criteria has finally arrived. The American Psychiatric Association released its fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical ...