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The DSM-5 and the RDoC: Grand Designs and Grander Problems

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The two great projects in psychiatry concern the psychiatric diagnostic manual DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) and the neuroscientific-based psychiatric research project RDoC (Insel et al., American Journal of Psychiatry, 167, 748–751, 2010; Insel & Lieberman, DSM-5 and RDoC: Shared interests. The National Institute of Mental Health, 2013). Insel et al. had considered the latter as a step in improving psychiatric understanding of mental disorder and eventually as a key for a new approach to psychiatric diagnosis. More recently, he considered the two projects as collaborative and mutually informing (Insel & Lieberman, DSM-5 and RDoC: Shared interests. The National Institute of Mental Health, 2013). This chapter first examines the multiple criticisms of the RDoC project, which are eerily similar to those applicable to the DSM-5. Both projects appear insular and focused on the neurobiology of mental disorder, in particular, despite protestations to the contrary.

Next, the chapter describes once more PTSD, but this time as treated in the DSM-5. I review its criteria, its factor structure, and so on, and present recent research and criticisms related to it. I describe my own research on PTSD, including on the excessive symptom combinations possible because of its polythetic structure, especially when possible comorbidities are considered (Young, Lareau, & Pierre, Psychological Injury and Law, 7, 61–74, 2014). It would appear that simplifying the approach to symptom organization for PTSD makes sense, and the same message applies to many DSM-5 disorders.

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Young, G. (2016). The DSM-5 and the RDoC: Grand Designs and Grander Problems. In: Unifying Causality and Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24094-7_23

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