This is pretty big news in the mental health world. There are all sorts of reports on it, this one from the Los Angeles Times:
After years of research, professional infighting and maneuvering from various interest groups, the nation’s psychiatrists Tuesday unveiled proposed changes to the manual used to diagnose and treat mental disorders around the world.
The draft document, released by the American Psychiatric Assn., for the first time calls for binge-eating and gambling to be considered disorders, opening the way for insurance coverage of these problems. But it refrains from suggesting a formal diagnosis for obesity, Internet addiction or sex addiction, as some professionals had proposed.
The document also recommends a single category for autism spectrum disorders, unifying what has been a multifaceted and complicated diagnostic scale.
The fifth edition of the…