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I’m running out of titles – all quiet on the western front<\/font><\/strong><\/em>, the sounds of silence<\/font><\/strong><\/em>, the silent treatment<\/font><\/strong><\/em> – ways to describe the status of the DSM-5 Revision. There’s suddenly nothing to say. The full report on the field trials has yet to appear. The PR site, DSM-5 Facts, won’t even come up right now, but on my last fly-by, it looked the same as it looked in May. Google news finds neither David Kupfer nor Darrel Regier in anything recent. My understanding is that the DSM-5 Task Force is to present the final product to the APA Board of Trustees in November, a month or so hence. Dr. Allen Frances<\/font><\/strong><\/u><\/a> has gone quiet. Suzy Chapman’s blog, dxrevisionwatch.com<\/font><\/strong><\/u>, the usual resource for matters DSM-5 is likewise quiet. She did report that HHS announced a delay until October 2014 for the implementation of the ICD-10-CM – <\/p>\n

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– and wondered if the HHS decision might spark a delay with the DSM-5, but it didn’t. Apparently the DSM-5 is on schedule. As for the DSM-5 site, if it has been updated recently, I can’t find where. During these several months of silence, I’ve thought about the DSM-5 off and on. Silence would be a good space for pondering, but there’s nothing much to ponder. <\/p>\n

From my vantage as someone watching from the outside, it seems like the DSM-5 effort was begun at the crest of a movement, setting out to extend the biological paradigm to new heights with A Research Agenda for DSM-5<\/font><\/strong><\/u><\/a>:<\/div>\n
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    In the ongoing quest to improve our psychiatric diagnostic system, we are now searching for new approaches to understanding the etiological and pathophysiological mechanisms that can improve the validity of our diagnoses and the consequent power of our preventive and treatment interventions venturing beyond the current DSM paradigm and DSM-IV framework. This thought-provoking volume produced as a partnership between the American Psychiatric Association, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse represents a far-reaching attempt to stimulate research and discussion in the field in preparation for the eventual start of the DSM-V process, still several years hence. The book:<\/sup><\/div>\n