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Table Of Contents
From DSM-5 & ICD-9 to ICD-10-CM
General Information about the DSM-5
General Critique of the DSM-5
Books
Websites
Critique by Diagnosis
Autism
Aspergers
ADHD
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
Bereavement
Fetishes Disorders
Somatic Symptom Disorder
Binge Eating Disorder
Female Sexual Dysfunction
Substance-Related & Addictive Disorders
Paraphilic Disorders
Responses to the Critique of DSM-5
DSM-5 and Psychopharmacological Companies
Critique of Psychopharmacological Industry and Medicating Psychiatrists
Insurance Reimbursement & DSM-5
From American Psychiatric Association
Additional Resources
ICD-10-CM: From DSM-5 & ICD-9 to ICD-10-CM
Question and Answer about the ICD-10 from the APA Practice Organization!
What You Need to Know About DSM-5 and ICD-10-CM Psychiatric Times
The Transition from DSM-5 to ICD-10
ICD-10 Checklist for Therapists in Private Practice. Are you ready for Oct. 1?
WHO: ICD-10 Classification of Mental Disorders
The original printing DSM-5 contains some errors regarding to ICD codes. For corrections, go to ICD Coding Update, Supplement to DSM-5
Road to 10 & Countdown, CMS Resources
Quick Guide, by ApA
CDC – International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM)
General Information about the DSM-5
American Psychiatric Association: DSM-5 development: Frequently asked questions.
American Psychiatric Association: Highlights of Changes from DSM-IV-TR to DSM-5.
American Psychiatric Association: DSM – History of the manual.
American Psychiatric Association: DSM-5 – The Future of Psychiatric Diagnosis.
American Psychiatric Association: The people behind the DSM-5.
American Psychiatric Association: American Psychiatric Association releases DSM-5 – Publication of diagnostic manual culminates 14-year development process.
American Psychiatric Association: Online Assessment Measures.
American Psychiatric Association: Important Coding Corrections.
DSM-5 Field Trials Posted Online by AJP.
Grohol, J. M. & Tartakovsky, M. S: DSM-5 Resource Guide.
Changes to ICD-10-CM Codes Relevant to Psychologists: The coding changes described in this article went into effect on October 1, 2017. The changes most relevant to psychologists pertain to the following topics/conditions:
- Substance use disorders (in remission)
- Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder
- Pain management and neurology
Effective October 1, 2017 DSM-5 Diagnoses and New ICD-10-CM Codes
DSM-5 Diagnoses and New ICD-10-CM Codes, Effective October 1, 2017
Changes to ICD-10-CM Codes for DSM-5 Diagnoses
For 2018 update on billing codes including Telehealth CPT Codes:
For updated billing and CPT info: Barbara Griswold, LMFT: Navigating the Insurance Maze
Frances, A. (2013). Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5 – Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life.New York: William Morrow.
Frances, A. (2013). Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis – Responding to the Challenge of DSM-5. New York: Guilford Press.
Greenberg, G. (2013). The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry. New York: Blue Rider Press.
Paris, J. (2013). The Intelligent Clinician’s Guide to the DSM-5. New York: Oxford University Press.
The Americanization of Mental Illness
Breggin, P.R., M.D. on Pychiatric Drug Facts
Carney, J.: 1984 Revisited – The New DSM.
Carney, J.: DSM-5 Boycott Launched!
Carney, J.: The DSM-5 Field Trials: Inter-Rater Reliability Ratings Take a Nose Dive.
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a non-profit dedicated to investigating and exposing psychiatric violations of human rights.
Critical Statement by the director of National Institute for Mental Health (NIHM), Thomas Insel.
Frances, A.: DSM-5 Field Trials Discredit APA.
Frances, A.: DSM 5 Is Guide Not Bible – Ignore Its Ten Worst Changes.
Frances, A.: Is Government Intervention Needed to Prevent an Unsafe DSM 5?
Frances, A.: DSM 5 Boycotts and Petitions.
Frances, A.: Is Not Following Doctor’s Orders a Mental Disorder?
Frances, A.: DSM 5 Boycotts and Petitions – Too many, too sectarian.
Frances, A.: Why DSM 5 Won’t Meet The Press. It Is Counting On A Captive Audience.
Frances, A.: Price Gouging: Why Will DSM-5 Cost $199 a Copy? Because it thinks it has a monopoly but probably doesn’t.
Frances, A.: Sunday Dialogue – Defining Mental Illness. Readers React.
Frances, A.: Does DSM-5 Have a Captive Audience?
Frances, A.: NIMH vs DSM-5: No One Wins, Patients Lose.
Frances, A.: The Inmates Seem to Have Taken Over the Asylum.
Frances, A.: The International Reaction to DSM-5.
Frances, A.: One manual shouldn’t dictate US mental health research.
Frances, A.: DSM-5: Where Do We Go From Here?
Frances, A.: The New Crisis in Confidence in Psychiatric Diagnosis.
Frances, A.: The Role of Biological Tests in Psychiatric Diagnosis.
Frances, A.: Is Criticism of DSM-5 ‘Anti-psychiatry’?
Frances, A.: DSM-5 Writing Mistakes Will Cause Great Confusion.
Frances, A. & Spitzer, R.: To the APA Board of Trustees.
Friedman, R. A.: The Book Stops Here.
Genova, P, M.D. Dump the DSM
How doctors think. Medical mistakes in Diagnosis
Insel, T. R.: Director’s Blog. (National Institute for Mental Health)
Kinderman, P.: ‘Grief and anxiety are not mental illnesses’.
Psychiatrists, MDs & Psychologists—No Medical Test Exists for Any “Mental Disorder”.
Radical Therapy, Critical Theory, and Antipsychiatry: Bibliography
Sandeen, A.: Dr. Robert Spitzer – DSM-5 process can hardly be described as ‘transparent’ and ‘open’.
Statement of Concern was opened by a committee of 40 prominent psychologists, psychiatrists, other professionals, and representatives of service users’ organizations from seven countries, including Australia and New Zealand. Their press release is titled: International Mental Health Experts Call for Boycott of DSM-5.
Thomas Szasz, MD on psychiatric diagnosis and mental Illness
Zur, O., Nordmarken, N.: DSM: Diagnosing for Money and Power Summary of the Critique of the DSM.
Frances, A.: Will the DSM-5 Reduce Rates of Autism?
Frances, A.: Two Fatal Technical Flaws in the DSM-5 Definition of Autism.
Greenfield, B.: How Will the New Definition of Autism in DSM-5 Affect Children? Parents, Advocates Anxious Over Changes.
Hill, N.: Autism Awareness: Changes in DSM-5.
Jabr, F.: By the Numbers: Autism Is Not a Math Problem.
Lohr, W. D. & Tanguay, P.: DSM-5 and Proposed Changes to the Diagnosis of Autism. Pediatric Annals.
Scrowley: APA approves diagnostic changes to DSM-5 autism definition.
Willingham, E.: New DSM criteria for autism: Who will be left behind?
Wilson, C.E., et al.: Comparison of ICD-10R, DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5 in an Adult Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnostic Clinic.
Hill, N.: Autism Awareness: Changes in DSM-5.
Jabr, F.: By the Numbers: Autism Is Not a Math Problem.
Malcom, L.: What happens when Asperger’s no longer exists?
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder – ADHD:
Hickey, P. In DSM-5, A-D-H-D Still Spells Misbehavior.
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder:
Axelson D. et al.: Examining the proposed disruptive mood dysregulation disorder diagnosis in children in the Longitudinal Assessment of Manic Symptoms study.
Cambpell, H.: In Defense of DSM-5 Making Tantrums A Mental Disorder.
Frances. A.: Normal Grief vs Depression In DSM5.
Grief is agony, but let’s not call it a mental illness.
Grief over DSM-5 Depression Criteria. (2013).
Gup, T.: Diagnosis: Human.
Noel, S.: Good Grief: Why the DSM-5 Is Wrong About Bereavement and Depression.
Fetishes and the DSM: When Is a Kink a Mental Health Issue?
Bernard, T.: Physical Illnesses May Soon Be Labeled Mental Disorder.
Chapman, S.: Somatic Symptom Disorder could capture millions more under mental health diagnosis.
Den Broeder, G.: The new somatic symptom disorder in DSM-5 risks mislabeling many people as mentally ill.
Frances, A.: Mislabeling Medical Illness As Mental Disorder.
Frances, A.: Bad News – DSM 5 Refuses to Correct Somatic Symptom Disorder.
Frances, A.: Why Did DSM 5 Botch Somatic Symptom Disorder?
Gross, M.: Has the manual gone mental?
King, S. A.: The new somatic symptom disorder in DSM-5 risks mislabeling many people as mentally ill.
Hanlon, P.: DSM-5 To Include Binge Eating Disorder.
Frances, A.: Female Sexual Dysfunction: A Case of Pharma Disease Mongering.
Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders:
Jabr, F.: The Newest Edition of Psychiatry’s “Bible,” the DSM-5, Is Complete.
Moran, M.: Gambling Disorder to Be Included in Addictions Chapter.
Davey, M.: Cannabis disorders less likely to be diagnosed.
Gray. E.: Sexual Fetishes Likely Still Included In DSM-5 — But Not Necessarily As Mental Illnesses.
Pappas, S.: What’s Crazy? Sexual Fetishes Spur Psychiatric Manual Controversy.
On DSM V – General:
- American Psychiatric Association, DSM-5
- Inside the DSM-5 Process: Issues, Debates, and Reflections
- Update: DSM-5 Major Changes By JOHN M GROHOL Psy.D.
DSM-5 Controversies
- The tyranny of mental health
- In Scientific American: Anti-Psychiatry Prejudice? A response to Dr. Lieberman
- DSM-5 Controversies (2009)
- DSM-5 Badly Off Track by Dr Frances was chair of the DSM-IV Task Force
- A Warning Sign on the Road to DSM-5: Beware of Its Unintended Consequences, by Dr Frances was chair of the DSM-IV Task Force
- Setting the Record Straight: A Response to Frances Commentary on DSM-5
- APA and DSM-5: Empty Promises, by Robert L. Spitzer, MD, the architect of former editions of the DSM
- Resignation Letter to DSM-5 Workgroup
- David Elkins, Ph.D.’s 2011 critique and petition regarding the DSM V
- DSM5 in Distress: The DSM’s impact on mental health practice and research by Allen Frances, M.D.
- Diagnosing the D.S.M. More critique of DSM V and American Psychiatric Association by the architect of the DSM III and IV by Allen Frances, M.D.
Responses to the Critique of the DSM-5
Grohol, J. M.: Some Empty Arguments against the DSM-5.
Grohol, J. M.: You Do Make a Difference in the DSM-5.
Grohol, J. M.: DSM-5 Published, ‘Critical Guidebook for Clinicians’.
Kupfer, D. J.: Statement by David Kupfer, MD
Wakefield, J.C. & First, M. B.: Validity of the bereavement exclusion to major depression: does the empirical evidence support the proposal to eliminate the exclusion in DSM-5?
DSM-5 and Psychopharmacological Companies
Drug Company Profits Set to Increase from Additions to DSM-5
Corporate Interests Behind WebMD’s Friendly, Free Advice.
“….For example, in 2010, no matter how you answered one of its questionnaires, WebMD diagnosed you with depression and “linked you to a river of pills.”
Critique of Psychopharmacological Industry and Medicating Psychiatrists
Is psychiatry committing ‘professional suicide’?
Antipsychotic Prescriptions in Children Have Skyrocketed: Study
Top 10 Drug Company Settlements: Multibillion-dollar settlements against big drug companies have become all too common in recent years. Here’s a rogues gallery of the worst offenders.
Psychiatric Drugs Facts by Dr. Peter Bregin
Insurance Reimbursement & DSM-5
From American Psychiatric Association
American Psychiatric Association: DSM-5 – Insurance Implications of DSM-5.
American Psychiatric Association: How quickly will insurance companies be able to transition to DSM-5?
ApA Answers Insurance-Related Questions About DSM-5
Insurance Implications of DSM-5
Does DSM 5 Have a Captive Audience? No. DSM 5 codes are not needed for insurance reimbursement By Allen J. Frances, M.D.
The DSM-5 and ICD-10 By Barbara Griswold, LMFT
The Effect of the Inclusion of Binge Eating Disorder in the DSM-5 By J. Dolores
DSM-5 and Forensic Psychology & Forensic Evaluations
Forensic Implications of the DSM-5
Lawyers worry new measure of mental retardation could prompt more executions
From DSM-I to DSM-5 in the Legal System: Mental Illness Issues in the Courtroom
Apps for Androids:
DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria, Apps for Androids