The draft of the new 'psychiatric bible' is published

[image error]The draft version of the American Psychiatric Association's DSM 5, the psychiatric 'bible' that defines the revised criteria for diagnosing mental illness, has finally been published.

It's a masterpiece of compromise - intended to be largely backwardly compatible, so most psychiatrists could just get on diagnosing the few major mental illnesses that all clinicians recognise in the same way they always did, with some extra features if you're an advanced user.

One of the most striking extra...