Psychiatric classification and diagnostic frameworks provide the foundation for identifying, studying and treating mental health conditions. Traditionally anchored in categorical systems such as the ...

After significant debate, the fifth edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-5) was published in 2013. Even before it was published it was met with ...

Mental health diagnoses can help, but human minds are more sophisticated than rigid categories. We may need better "maps," ...

Dr. Oldham's contributions have fundamentally reshaped personality disorder classification, moving the field from rigid diagnostic categories toward a more nuanced dimensional system. As former ...

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A sweeping genomic analysis reveals how psychiatric disorders cluster into five biological families, exposing shared pathways and pinpointing where their genetic roots diverge. Study: Mapping the ...

A comprehensive invited review published today in Brain Medicine confronts one of the most persistent paradoxes in modern medicine: psychiatry remains the only major clinical discipline that diagnoses ...

The global mental health movement has faced criticism for its promotion of standardized interventions that lack cultural ...