Questions about things in or not in DSM-5

[Oz67]

What happened to Pervasive Developmental Disorder category? It sounds scientific.

 

[Hypnalis]

wikipedia says PDD was replaced with ASD in DSM-5.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

Isn't ASD characterized for most of us by severely delayed social development?

 

[Oz67]

Isn't ASD characterized for most of us by severely delayed social development?

There is:

ASD Level 1

ASD Level 2

ASD Level 3

 

[Shamar]

The was a determination to simplify the latest DSM. In my opinion, they simplified it to the point of being useless. Case in point was the decision to eliminate all the different types of autism to just three levels of functionality. I suspect that this was done by academics and theoreticians, and not by practitioners in the field. Unfortunately, the practitioners have to go by it.

 

[Fino]

I read that they purposely try to make diagnoses sound scientific to prevent issues with stigmatizing the ordinary language of laymen.

 

[Shamar]

I read that they purposely try to make diagnoses sound scientific to prevent issues with stigmatizing the ordinary language of laymen.

Yes. I also noticed they turned "Sociopath" and "Psychopath" into "Anti Social Personality Disorder." In other words, the person running around trying to kill people isn't really a psychopath, he is merely anti social. I'm sure there are other examples. Like I said, they simplified it into uselessness.

 

[Oz67]

I have been wondering why Prosopagnosia is not in DSM-5-TR. I have been wondering if it is just a symptom that is common across neurodevelopmental disorders and neurocugitive disorders that is related to lack theory of mind.

 

[Aspychata]

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