Diagnosing Mental Illness: A Spectrum of Controversy

Authors

  • Joanne V. Loewy DA, LCAT, MT-BC
  • Ralph Spintge MD

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47513/mmd.v5i3.320

Abstract

The mental health community is facing some recent ripples with the newly released fifth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). The DSM-5 officially has eliminated familiar autism spectrum diagnoses, among others. Released in early May 2013 by the American Psychiatric Association, this well-known and familiar classification guide has now pulled Asperger syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder (PDD), not otherwise specified, and childhood disintegrative disorder...

Author Biographies

Joanne V. Loewy, DA, LCAT, MT-BC

Director, The Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

Ralph Spintge, MD

Department of Algesiology, Sport Clinic Hellersen, Paulmannshoeherstr, Luedenscheid, Germany.

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Issue

Vol. 5 No. 3 (2013)

Section

Editorial