Saturday, December 04, 2010

Personality disorders

The people who are putting together the new version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disoders, Fifth Edition, are removing several popular diagnoses, including Narcissistic, Paranoid, Schizoid, Histrionic and Dependent Personality Disorders. Is that because these disorders are so common now that they almost seem normal?

2 comments:

Terri Wagner said...

In a word yes

Webutante said...

YES!!