{"id":279,"date":"2011-09-21T14:45:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T14:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fms-teaching.ncl.ac.uk\/psy\/?p=279"},"modified":"2011-09-21T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T14:45:19","slug":"defining-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/2011\/09\/21\/defining-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining mental illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8216;<a title=\"Overview of psychiatry\" href=\"https:\/\/fms-teaching.ncl.ac.uk\/psy\/introduction\/overview\/\">Overview<\/a>&#8216; section of this site the handout (linked to the TSM introductory lecture for the &#8216;Tired all the time&#8217; case) discusses the difficulty of making psychiatric diagnoses. The lecture and handout refer to ICD-10 and DSM-IV but both are being reviewed with the next iterations of both classification systems due out soon. There is an\u00a0<a title=\"Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/12\/ff_dsmv\/all\/1\">interesting\u00a0article<\/a> in <em>Wired<\/em> magazine that includes an interview with Allen Frances who was lead editor of DSM-IV where he talks of his concerns over DSM-V.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/images\/19-01\/ff_dsmv2_f.jpg\" alt=\"Allen Frances\" width=\"660\" height=\"527\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Frances is worried that the DSM-5 will &quot;take psychiatry off a cliff.&quot; | Photo: Susanna Howe; photographed at Caf\u00e9 Sabarsky, Neue Galerie, NYC<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8216;Overview&#8216; section of this site the handout (linked to the TSM introductory lecture for the &#8216;Tired all the time&#8217; case) discusses the difficulty of making psychiatric diagnoses. The lecture and handout refer to ICD-10 and DSM-IV but both &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/2011\/09\/21\/defining-mental-illness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}