title: [Reasons I liked DSM: the challenge of medical diagnosis in psychiatry].
abstract: The first draft of the fifth version of the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V) provides an opportunity to clarify the several issues associated with the debate on diagnostic process in psychiatry. Several peculiar aspects of the DSM approach showed stability over time suggesting that this project is rooted in an original conception of mental disease, innovative epistemology of medical judgement and empirically grounded choice of diagnostic categories. Attention will be paid to reasons for actual reject of this clinical philosophy in the US and long-lasting misunderstanding in French speaking countries.
authors.affiliation: Ancien médecin-chef du Service, de psychiatrie de liaison et d'intervention de crise des HUG, 1205 Geneve. antonio.andreoli@bluewin.ch
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Andreoli
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Foresti
mesh_terms: D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D004644:Emotions; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011570:Psychiatry; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013557:Switzerland