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Montreal Gazette - April 25-26, 2010

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Montreal Gazette




Some psychologists are concerned that the latest revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — a hugely influential book used daily by doctors — could unnecessarily trigger wholesale "epidemics" of mental illness. The first DSM, published in 1952, containing 128 disorders. Its current edition lists 357. "There's something wrong with that," says Temple psychologist Frank Farley. "We're seeing too many quote-unquote disorders lurking simply in the extremes of behavior. We see some extreme of behavior and we decide it's a 'disorder,' that it's out of order with something, that it's not normal."