Mental disorder Quote by Thomas D. Taylor

“Bolstering the idea that many names for autism have come and gone is the fact that in 2013 the DSM V eliminated the five…

— Thomas D. Taylor

“Be that as it may, some of those that would no longer be diagnosed “autistic” today were diagnosed on the autism spectrum and accepted…

— Thomas D. Taylor

I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling.

— Temple Grandin

When we come to research, if we want to find out the cause of autism, we're going to have to be much more specific,…

— Darold Treffert

Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic…

— Siri Hustvedt

“The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells for $99...There are currently 374 mental disorders. I bought the…

— Jon Ronson

“Morrison, J. (2014). Diagnosis made easier (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford Press. [Step by step, this book helps the reader make sense of the…

— James Morrison

“In April 2013, a few weeks before DSM-V was formally released, NIMH director Thomas Insel announced that his agency could no longer support DSM’s…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“Studies of the DSM-II found that when two psychiatrists consulted the same patient, they gave the same DSM diagnosis only between 32 and 42…

— Scott Stossel

If you have high-functioning autism, you may well have a lot of autistic traits but if you've got a particular lifestyle where it's possibly…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Autism spectrum disorders are linked to other problems: Most of the people we see in our Asperger clinic for adults also suffer from clinical…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

I do clearly have quite a lot of the behavioural traits that people who are diagnosed as autistic do have. But it's a question…

— Tom Rosenthal