Mixed features of depression: why DSM-5 is wrong (and so was DSM-IV)
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- 1 July 2013
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 203 (1) , 3-5
Abstract
Summary: The DSM system has never acknowledged a central position for mixed states; thus, mixed depressions have been almost completely neglected for decades. Now, DSM-5 is proposing diagnostic criteria for depression with mixed features that will lead to more misdiagnosis and inadequate treatment of this syndrome. Different criteria, based on empirically stronger evidence than exists for the DSM-5 criteria, should be adopted.Keywords
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