Beyond the DSM: Thomas Insel and Understanding Mental Illness

You may have heard that several days ago, Thomas Insel, head of the NIMH, announced in a blog post, Transforming Diagnosis, that “the NIMH will be re-orienting its research away from DSM categories.”

He went on to say that: “We will be supporting research projects that look across current categories – or sub-divide current categories – to begin to develop a better system.”

Thus: “Studies of...

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