{"id":359544,"date":"2026-04-02T02:08:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/359544\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:08:35","slug":"the-bible-of-psychiatry-is-being-reviewed-heres-what-may-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/359544\/","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":359545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,43,139,69,1600],"class_list":{"0":"post-359544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-psychiatry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}