Bereavement, complicated grief, and the rationale for diagnosis in psychiatry

Recent controversies over the DSM-5 raise a foundational question for all diagnostic classifications: what is their underlying purpose? The author raises this question in the context of the proposed elimination of the “bereavement exclusion” from the DSM-5; and the possible addition of the category...

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Main Author: Pies, Ronald
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Les Laboratoires Servier 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3384439/