NEW YORK, May 17: The long-awaited, controversial new edition of the bible of psychiatry can be characterized by many numbers: its 947 pages, its $199 price tag, its more than 300 maladies (from ‘dependent personality disorder’ and ‘voyeuristic disorder’ to ‘delayed ejaculation,’ ‘kleptomania’ and ‘intermittent explosive disorder’), each limning the potential woes of being human. But to the psychiatrist who shepherded the tortuous creation of the ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,’ perhaps the single most important number is the ‘5’ in its title: This is the DSM-5, not the DSM-V. (AGENCIES)
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