Mixed features of depression: why DSM-5 is wrong (and so was DSM-IV).
Journal
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science. 2013 Jul;203(1);3-5. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.112.124404.
Author
Athanasios Koukopoulos, Gabriele Sani, S Nassir Ghaemi
Affiliation
Abstract
The DSM system has never acknowledged a central position for mixed states; thus, mixed depressions have been almost completely neglected for decades. Now, DSM-5 is proposing diagnostic criteria for depression with mixed features that will lead to more misdiagnosis and inadequate treatment of this syndrome. Different criteria, based on empirically stronger evidence than exists for the DSM-5 criteria, should be adopted.