November 22, 2002
Treating the Mind as Well as the Brain
A mini-rebellion broke out last summer in psychiatry, perhaps the most disputatious of all medical disciplines. The current rebels are demanding changes in the official handbook -- the fourth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as DSM-IV, which lists the conditions that the association designates as disorders (and that health-insurance companies will pay psychiatrists for treating). The rebels want to add to that
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