The DSM-5 in Perspective

Chapter 1 The Ideal of Scientific Progress and the DSM

Chapter 2 DSM-5 and Research Concerning Mental Illness

Chapter 3 DSM-5 and Psychiatry’s Second Revolution: Descriptive vs. Theoretical Approaches to Psychiatric Classification

Chapter 4 DSM-5: The Delayed Demise of Descriptive Diagnosis

Chapter 5 Must Disorders Cause Harm? The Changing Stance of the DSM

Chapter 6 “Deviant Deviance”: Cultural Diversity in DSM-5

Chapter 7 Danger and Difference: The Stakes of Hebephilia

Chapter 8 Sexual Dysfunctions and Asexuality in DSM-5

Chapter 10 The Loss of Grief: Science and Pseudoscience in the Debate over DSM-5’s Elimination of the Bereavement Exclusion

Chapter 11 Against Hyponarrating Grief: Incompatible Research and Treatment Interests in the DSM-5

Chapter 12 RDoC: Thinking Outside the DSM Box Without Falling into a Reductionist Trap

Chapter 13 DSM-5 and the Reconceptualization of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder