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Psychiatry’s playbook is about to get torn up

Psychiatry’s playbook is about to get torn up

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Why psychiatry’s diagnostic system may undergo major changes, and what the scientific debates over how mental illnesses should be defined are

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In this episode of Science Quickly, we dig into a brewing shake-up
inside psychiatry as the American Psychiatric Association considers
sweeping changes to the way mental illness is defined and
diagnosed. Scientific American’s associate editor Allison Parshall
breaks down what the potential changes are, why long-standing
diagnostic categories may no longer reflect scientific reality and
what these revisions could ultimately mean for patients.
Recommended Reading: Psychiatrists plan to overhaul the mental
health bible—and change how we define ‘disorder’ E-mail us at
sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or
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newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Kendra Pierre-Louis,
Fonda Mwangi, Sushmita Pathak and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was
edited by Alex Sugiura, with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and
Aaron Shattuck. Our theme music was composed by Dominic Smith.
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