Ppt Dsm Mood Disorders Nosology
According to psychiatrist Allen Frances, diagnosing patients with either as either bipolar or as suffering from a unipolar depression with mood swings has always been difficult. Changes to the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV) that made bipolar II disorder an official diagnosis made things more difficult, Frances says, because mental health experts did not anticipate the response of the pharmaceutical industry, which began marketing and...
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