Key diagnostic deadline draws near for psychiatrists and 'new' DSM conditions
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 15:00
in Health & Medicine
"Where are we going to put the narcissists?" It was a question asked urgently by one of the hundreds of psychiatrists gathered here last week for their professional society's annual meeting. With doctors in the thick of a years-long effort to rewrite the essential textbook for diagnosing mental illnesses, questions like these came up time and again in meeting rooms, over drinks sipped from coconut shells, and in other venues during the five-day conference.