Welcome to the AUDHD Me & MO The Podcast series where I look  into the DSM-5-TR and later on the ICD-11.

This episode describes the “Preface to DSM-5”

I believe it is important to have a clinical and life experience mixture when books like these are written.

I discuss the :

DSM 5-TR Chair & Review Group

DSM 5 - Task Force & Work Group

I haven’t recognised not ONE of these doctors that have contributed to the 12 year project of the writing of this edition and I have over 2000 Neurodivergent contacts in every level of the field within my network except, obviously, the DSM team…..which concerns me.

The DSM “current diagnostic criteria are the best available description of how mental disorders are expressed and can be recognised by trained clinicians”. (XXii)*

I understand it is relevant to have a body of evidence to be able to work in this field.

However, “The criteria are concise and explicit and intended to facilitate an objective assessment and symptom presentations in clinical private and primary care as well in general community epidemiological studies of mental disorders” (Xxiii)*

I find the word “OBJECTIVE” an issue.

When I worked in Physiotherapy we used a Assessment process called S.O.A.P when seeing patients:

S - Subjective

O- Objective

A- Analysis

P - Plan

Which I find much more harmonising than just an objective point of view because so much is missed!

I hope you enjoy this episode.

*“The American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association, 2022.

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