{"id":567528,"date":"2026-03-27T09:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/567528\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:39:13","slug":"the-bible-of-psychiatry-is-being-reviewed-heres-what-may-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/567528\/","title":{"rendered":"The bible of psychiatry is being reviewed \u2014 here\u2019s what may change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The people behind psychiatry\u2019s most important guide have, for a long time, deliberately avoided theories on the root causes of mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>That may soon change.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the American Psychiatric Association published five papers outlining its proposals for the next edition of the DSM.<\/p>\n<p>Significantly, the DSM\u2019s Structure and Dimensions Subcommittee has proposed a \u201cmore flexible\u201d model for the DSM, which would incorporate some of the factors that may underlie mental illness and move away from rigid diagnostic categories.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The people behind psychiatry\u2019s most important guide have, for a long time, deliberately avoided theories on the root&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515,44,27393],"class_list":["post-567528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-news","tag-psychiatry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}