Frances led the task force that produced the DSM IV in 2000.
An earlier study found that the new criteria would increase the number of people classified as having alcohol problems by nearly 62% over DSM IV, suggesting that it would include more people with mild problems not previously seen as significant enough to warrant a psychiatric label.
Yet faced with evidence of this disastrous epidemic, the DSM-IV did not delete the diagnosis.
In the parlance of the DSM-IV, is narcissism a true personality disorder or a character disorder?
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But the DSM-IV failed to ask the same question when, for example, it retained Multiple Personality Disorder.
The diagnostic manual of mental problems, called the DSM-IV, defines ADD by a set of eighteen symptoms.
In the nearly two decades since DSM-IV -- such Roman numerals suggest a chiseling in stone, don't they?
Accordingly, in "Saving Normal, " Dr. Frances attempts the delicate task of debunking the DSM-5 while justifying his own DSM-IV.
By the DSM-IV definition, the term ADHD includes both ADHD with hyperactivity (the H in ADHD) and ADHD without hyperactivity.
In these instances, the qEEG becomes even more valuable, as well as the standardized rating scales, especially the DSM-IV criteria.
The other part, the part that the DSM-IV and other catalogs of pathology leave out, is the zesty side of ADD.
By the current DSM-IV definition, ADD technically does not exist.
In addition to the history, which should include questions based upon the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria, and the qEEG and sometimes the SPECT, other standardized sets of questions, such as the ADHD Rating Scale or the Brown scale, add confidence to the diagnosis.
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