A proposed change to the definition of depression could pathologize normal grieving and greatly expand the number of people treated for the mood disorder, researchers contend in a new report, the latest salvo in a bitter skirmish over the diagnosis that has gone on largely under the public radar.
The criteria for depression are being reviewed by the American Psychiatry Association, which is finishing work on the fifth edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or D.S.M., the first since 1994. The manual is the standard reference for the field, shaping treatment
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