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At one of those meetings in the next few months, the DSM-5 is scheduled to be presented to the American Psychiatric Association’s Board of Trustees for final approval before going to print for the scheduled launch in May 2013. The web site, which hasn’t been touched in several months, still begins with:<\/div>\n
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Publication of the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders <\/em>[DSM-5] in May 2013 will mark one of the most anticipated events in the mental health field.<\/sup><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The results of the Field Trials remain unpublished and the once ubiquitous articles in the press and psychiatric newsletters about the DSM-5 have disappeared from sight. About the only things about psychiatry are the billion dollar settlements with the pharmaceutical companies for false advertising and other sins [GSK<\/strong>‘s Paxil & Wellbutrin, Janssen<\/strong>‘s Risperdal, Abbott<\/strong>‘s Depakote]. Even Dr. Insel’s NIMH blog this month is about his new plan for yet another classification [RDoC], referring to the DSM diagnoses as "fictive categories" [Words Matter<\/font><\/u><\/a><\/strong>]. So the DSM-5 seems to have moved from "one of the most anticipated events in the mental health field<\/font><\/strong>" into the realm of New Coke and the Segway – previous highly anticipated non-events.<\/div>\n

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Perhaps it’s premature to do an autopsy on something yet unborn, but barring divine intervention, I’m on pretty solid ground. The DSM-5 is an anachronism prior to its release. It was conceived to be the launching of a psychiatry grounded in biomarkers and neuroscience – the realization of the dreams from St. Louis in the 1970s. The Task Force began with a book [A Research Agenda for DSM-5<\/font><\/strong><\/u><\/a>] and an elaborate series of research planning conferences: <\/div>\n