DSM-5 publication date May 22: American Psychiatric Association to release DSM-5 between May 18-22, San Francisco
April 16, 2013
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DSM-5 publication date May 22: American Psychiatric Association to release DSM-5 between May 18-22, San Francisco
After 14 years and with a staggering $25 million thrown at it, the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) will be launched during the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco, May 18-22, 2013.
The Bumper Book of Head Stuff has cost $25,000 a page.
“…ignore DSM 5. It is not official. It is not well done. It is not safe. Don’t buy it. Don’t use it. Don’t teach it.”
Commentary: “Does DSM 5 Have a Captive Audience?” Saving Normal, Allen Frances, MD
Further revisions and refinements to the criteria sets and disorder descriptions, following closure of the third and final stakeholder review and comment period (June 15, 2012) and the finalizing of texts in December and January, are embargoed and won’t be evident until the manual is released, next month.
Draft proposals, as they had stood on the DSM-5 Development site for the third stakeholder review, were removed from the APA’s website last November. Additional pages archiving draft proposals for DSM-5 Development internal use which remained publicly accessible were put behind a webmaster log in, around mid March.
(No drafts of the expanded texts that accompany the disorder sections and categories have been available for public scrutiny at any stage in the drafting process.)
The official publication date for DSM-5 is May 22 for the U.S. (May 31 for UK). The manual is 1000 pages and costs nearly $200 for the hardcover edition. An electronic version of the DSM-5 is understood to be in development for later this year.
According to this December 1 interview with Task Force Chair, David J Kupfer, MD, for the Washingtonian,
…While it will likely be some time before we can expect a DSM-6, it may only be a few years until a DSM-5.1 or -5.2, thanks to the expected digital version of the manual. “We don’t wait to wait another 19 to 20 years to have a new revision of the whole volume,” says Kupfer. “But if there is some unexpected consequence, which we can’t anticipate, we have an opportunity to fix something two to three years from now.”
A DSM-5 Table of Contents listing the new disorder sections and category names for DSM-5 (but not the criteria sets) can be accessed on this APA page.
Also at that URL – fact sheets, articles and videos for selected categories, which are being added to every few weeks (including justifications for some of the more controversial changes and new inclusions), and the following documents relating to the overall development process:
Insurance Implications of DSM-5 (New document)
Highlights of Changes from DSM-IV-TR to DSM-5 (updated April 5, 2013)
From Planning to Publication: Developing DSM-5
The Organization of DSM-5
The People Behind DSM-5
A number of books are publishing around the DSM-5 this April and May:
The Intelligent Clinician’s Guide to the DSM-5® by Joel Paris (Apr 17, 2013)
The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry by Gary Greenberg (May 2, 2013) (also available as an Audio Book and Audio CD)
Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life by Allen Frances (May 14, 2013)
Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis: Responding to the Challenge of DSM-5 by Allen Frances MD (May 17, 2013)
Making the DSM-5: Concepts and Controversies by Joel Paris and James Phillips (May 31, 2013)
Recent press releases
December 1, 2012: APA Release No. 12-43 American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustees Approves DSM-5 (includes Attachment A: Select Decisions Made by APA Board of Trustees)
January 18, 2013: APA Release No. 13-06 DSM-5 Now Available for Preorder
February 28, 2013: APA Release No. 13-11 APA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, May 18-22; DSM-5 to be Released
April 9, 2013: APA Release No. 13-19 APA 2013 Annual Meeting Special Track to Present DSM-5 Changes