Why is the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manaual of Statistical Disorders, Fifth Edition) criticized?

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For those who know not, it is a compendium of psychiatric conditions that are reviewed with every edition with tthe latest edition being DSM-5 TR published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).

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The thing you have to understand is that the DSM is not the holy grail of psychiatry.

It’s a classification of diseases, so that everyone use the same language. It should not be used purely as a checklist to diagnose people, without digging any further.

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