February 9, 2012

DSM5: new psychiatry bible broadens definitions of mental illness

Speakers:
Prof Nick Craddock, Professor of Psychiatry, Cardiff University
Prof Peter Kinderman, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the world’s most widely used psychiatric bible. The development of the new, fifth version of the DSM has proved highly controversial among the mental health research community, with fears that too many people could become defined as mentally ill. The SMC invited two leading psychiatrists to discuss the implications of DSM5.