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Louise Mewton of the University of New South Wales in Australia, the lead author of that research, worries that the DSM-5 will pathologize normal behavior.
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There still is a need for scientists and clinicians to speak a common language in order to carry out clinical research, and the role of the DSM in aiding this communication won't change in the near future, said Dianne Chambless, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania who studies anxiety treatment.
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"The development of DSM-5 began with an unprecedented process of research evaluation that included a series of white papers and 13 scientific conferences supported by the National Institutes of Health, " wrote Dr. David Kupfer, chairman of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, who oversees the entire DSM-5 task force, in an e-mail.
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