Psychiatrists rewriting the mental health bible

Monday, May 25, 2009 - 20:42 in Psychology & Sociology

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, commonly called DSM, is getting an update. Now experts must decide what is a disorder and what falls in the range of normal human behavior. Is the compulsion to hoard things a mental disorder? How about the practice of eating excessively at night?

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