For Annie (and others intested in the new DSM)

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Last week I got the new issue of Scientific American Mind, and it includes a

short article about the new DSM. The article doesn't mention BPD specifically,

but it says that they are including guidelines for rating symptoms to help make

diagnoses more precise. And they're scrapping some disorders (Aperger's, which

surprises me, also histrionic, paranoid, schizoid, and dependendent PDs) and

adding more (binge eating disorder, hypersexual disorder, absexual disorder, and

addiction to gambling). It seems like they've also thrown out the clusters in

lieu of going with a chronological approach, starting with disorders that

generally present in childhood and moving up through later adulthood.

The article doesn't go into a lot of detail, but it will be interesting to see

the new DSM. It's supposed to be out in May.