Problems and Limits of DSM-5

Abstract

The DSM-5 has been published surrounded by a big controversy. Several specialists and institutions from the psychiatric field have shown their rejection of the classification established by the American Psychiatric Association’s manual. This article analyses some of the reasons on which this rejection has been based and reviews the main problems and limitations identified in the manual since its adoption of the biomedical approach that represents current psychiatry. Diagnostic inflation, medicalization and validity are some of the problems that should be urgently faced by psychiatry.