The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-V) contains a far more detailed exposition of the place of “culture” in psychopathology than any previous edition of the ...

Yet the DSM-5 states, paradoxically, that "premenstrual dysphoric disorder is not a culture-bound syndrome and has been observed in individuals in the United States, Europe, India, and Asia.

DSM-5 is a standardized volume that details and classifies mental disorders for the improvement of diagnosis, treatment, and research in the psychiatry field.

In addition, in DSM-5, disorders are organized in the context of age — that is, along a developmental lifespan within each chapter — as well as sex and cultural expectations.

Culture-bound syndromes do not sit all too comfortably in Western classifications of mental disorder. DSM-IV simply defined them as "recurrent, locality-specific patterns of aberrant behavior and ...

The DSM is a diagnostic tool that standardizes symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment for mental disorders. However, there are some limitations.

The psychiatrists preparing DSM-5 asked neurologists to comment as it was being developed. I cautioned that Asperger syndrome seemed to be more related to ADHD than autism.

DSM-5 and the mental illness make-over by Nick Haslam Mental disorders are messy amalgams of biology, psychology and culture / ‘The Extraction of the Stone of Madness’ (c.1494), Hieronymus Bosch Image ...

Christopher Lane's piece in Slate about the new disorders that might make their way into the DSM-V. The official Web site for the still-in-development DSM-V.

DSM-5, published in 2013, replaces the notion of culture-bound syndromes with three "cultural concepts of distress": cultural syndromes, cultural idioms of distress, and cultural explanations for ...