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Psychologists fear US manual will widen mental illness diagnosis

It’s more than a bit warped that ‘shyness in children’ and ‘being a teenager’ are somehow now diagnosable as mental disorders. I don’t see how that’s helpful to anyone.

Sat 19 May 2012 at 11:37   ·


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You are reading Psychologists fear US manual will widen mental illness diagnosis, a Microlog entry by MacDara Conroy. It is filed under Science & Nature, and was published in May 2012.

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