So the draft of DSM-V is out.
If, as everyone says, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is the Bible of Psychiatry, I'm not sure why it gets heavily edited once every ten years or so. Perhaps the previous versions are a kind of Old Testament, and only the current one represents the New Revelation from the gods of the mind?
Mind Hacks has an excellent summary of the proposed changes. Bear in mind that the book won't be released until 2013. Some of the headlines:
Asperger's Syndrome is out- everyone's going to have an "autistic spectrum disorder" now.
Personality Disorders are out - kind of. In their place, there's 5 Personality Disorder Types, each of which you can have to varying degrees, and also 6 Personality Traits, each of which you can have to varying degrees.
Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder - the disease which failed-antidepressant-turned-aphrodisiac flibanserin is supposed to treat ...
