But this latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, or DSM-5, will only make a bad situation worse because it will lower many diagnostic thresholds and increase the number of people in the general population seen as having a mental illness.

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Allies and adversaries, they never agree on whether criticizing the DSM is good for psychiatry or bad.

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In the parlance of the DSM-IV, is narcissism a true personality disorder or a character disorder?

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Several recent customer surveys and evaluation reports prepared by New York State electric utilities have shown that customers prefer to participate in DSM programs using onsite generation rather than load-shifting or curtailment.

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Whether someone receives the death penalty or a lesser sentence can rise or fall on whether he met criteria for a disorder as defined in the DSM.

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The DSM committees already tried their damnedest to support their diagnoses with neuroscience or biomarkers, but no lab tests yet exist for depression, schizophrenia, bipolar or obsessive-compulsive disorder, or, for that matter, any other mental disorders.

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Short of that, critics plan to press ahead with their case that the DSM-5 should be viewed with some skepticism and not wholly embraced by practitioners or patients.

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Dr. Frances repeatedly chastises the writers of the DSM-5 for failing to ask Hippocrates' question: Will this new diagnosis help patients or harm them?

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