{"id":301843,"date":"2010-02-10T09:07:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T14:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2010\/02\/10\/hypersexual-disorder-autism-addiction-the-new-psych-manual\/"},"modified":"2010-02-10T09:07:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T14:07:39","slug":"hypersexual-disorder-autism-addiction-the-new-psych-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/301843","title":{"rendered":"Hypersexual Disorder, Autism, Addiction: The New Psych Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/media\/brain_C_20090702102916.jpg\" alt=\"Brain\" align=\"right\"\/>Tomorrow&#8217;s mental illnesses went online today: The American Psychiatric Association posted a draft version of the DSM-V. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsm5.org\" >Read it for yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The DSM (full name: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) is the book that defines mental illness in America, so it&#8217;s not surprising that revising the thing is a contentious process that takes years and involves lots of debate. (The &#8220;V&#8221; attached to the name is Roman &#8212; this will be the fifth edition, replacing the current DSM-IV.)<\/p>\n<p>Among the changes proposed for DSM-V:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A category called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsm5.org\/ProposedRevisions\/Pages\/Substance-RelatedDisorders.aspx\" >substance-related disorders<\/a>&#8221; would include not only drug and alcohol addiction but also gambling addiction, the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704182004575055363825943790.html\" >WSJ notes<\/a>. Other disorders, including &#8220;Internet addiction,&#8221; will be &#8220;considered as potential additions to this category as research data accumulate,&#8221; according to the description of the category.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsm5.org\/ProposedRevisions\/Pages\/proposedrevision.aspx?rid=415\" >Hypersexual disorder<\/a>&#8221; would be added to the DSM. It would apply to people who repetitively engage in sexual &#8220;fantasies, urges and behavior&#8221; in response to anxiety, depression, stress or the like, and who repeatedly try and fail to control or significantly reduce the urges and behavior.<\/li>\n<li>Asperger&#8217;s disorder would be folded into the broader category of autism spectrum disorders. The vice chair of the DSM revision task force told the WSJ that there isn&#8217;t enough evidence to keep it as a separate diagnosis. The director of the Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=123527833\" >told NPR<\/a> that he agrees with the reclassification, but added that &#8220;I personally am probably going to have a very hard time calling myself autistic.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The draft revisions are open for public comment until April. After that, they&#8217;ll be field tested for a few years, before DSM-V is finally released in May, 2013, if everything goes according to plan.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/bI4h6WWuwjFAJcVOZNr3s8qJZiI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/bI4h6WWuwjFAJcVOZNr3s8qJZiI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/bI4h6WWuwjFAJcVOZNr3s8qJZiI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/bI4h6WWuwjFAJcVOZNr3s8qJZiI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?a=EXXgGQYFZ-0:0XFGNCpd9yc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?a=EXXgGQYFZ-0:0XFGNCpd9yc:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?i=EXXgGQYFZ-0:0XFGNCpd9yc:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?a=EXXgGQYFZ-0:0XFGNCpd9yc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?i=EXXgGQYFZ-0:0XFGNCpd9yc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?a=EXXgGQYFZ-0:0XFGNCpd9yc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?i=EXXgGQYFZ-0:0XFGNCpd9yc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?a=EXXgGQYFZ-0:0XFGNCpd9yc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/health\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/wsj\/health\/feed\/~4\/EXXgGQYFZ-0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s mental illnesses went online today: The American Psychiatric Association posted a draft version of the DSM-V. 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