{"id":661865,"date":"2010-02-10T09:31:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T14:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21954"},"modified":"2010-02-10T09:31:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T14:31:48","slug":"new-types-of-mental-disorders-recognized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/661865","title":{"rendered":"New Types Of Mental Disorders Recognized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty big news in the mental health world. There are all sorts of reports on it, this one from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-sci-dsm10-2010feb10,0,2650262.story\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>After years of research, professional infighting and maneuvering from various interest groups, the nation&#8217;s psychiatrists Tuesday unveiled proposed changes to the manual used to diagnose and treat mental disorders around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The draft document, released by the American Psychiatric Assn., for the first time calls for binge-eating and gambling to be considered disorders, opening the way for insurance coverage of these problems. But it refrains from suggesting a formal diagnosis for obesity, Internet addiction or sex addiction, as some professionals had proposed.<\/p>\n<p>The document also recommends a single category for autism spectrum disorders, unifying what has been a multifaceted and complicated diagnostic scale.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth edition of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty big news in the mental health world. There are all sorts of reports on it, this one from the Los Angeles Times: After years of research, professional infighting and maneuvering from various interest groups, the nation&#8217;s psychiatrists Tuesday unveiled proposed changes to the manual used to diagnose and treat mental disorders around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Mbf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}