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Fact Checking Psychiatry

3/27/2026
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The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is going back to the drawing board and planning for the upcoming DSM-6!  Their "Future DSM Strategic Committee" began two years ago with the publication of a series of articles in the American Journal of Psychiatry.1 The substance of these articles are detailed in the March 2026 edition of Psychiatric Times in an in-depth analysis entitled "The Future DSM, Bold Redesign, Lingering Blindspots" by psychiatrist Awais Aftab. APA's planning comes amid a crescendo of concern over the manual's overreach and its poor reliability and validity, which has been lamented by two previous NIMH directors. This problem has been so great that in 2013, the NIMH stopped using the DSM...
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