The American Psychiatric Association has released the blueprint for the fifth edition of its official handbook of diagnoses, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Will the proposed revisions, which could place more of the population under pathology, help us to better understand mental disorders?

A new rule broadens the definition of post-traumatic stress disorder, allowing non-combat veterans to receive disability benefits for being traumatized by events they did not actually experience.

Over the last hundred years, psychiatry has taken very different perspectives on war stress.

Psychiatry has transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorders due to the uncertainty of the true workings of the brain.

Why aren't we closer to understanding the relationship between manifest illness and its underlying causes?

This paper presents a number of psychological issues that could influene the behaviors of teenagers who become parents out of wedlock.