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Critical appraisal of the provisional DSM‐5 criteria for anorexia nervosa and an alternative proposal
Author(s) -
Hebebrand Johannes,
Bulik Cynthia M.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/eat.20875
Subject(s) - anorexia nervosa , critical appraisal , psychology , psychotherapist , developmental psychology , eating disorders , psychiatry , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
DSM‐V will be highly influential in shaping conceptions and perceptions of eating disorders by the lay public, patients, and health care providers over the next 10–15 years. DSM not only influences how medical and mental health care professionals diagnose and treat patients but also impacts health insurance policies, research funding, and clinical trials. Revisions to diagnostic criteria must be carefully considered, empirically based, and consistent with current thinking both within the field and across relevant fields. Resultant criteria should be descriptive and non‐judgmental and based on empirical findings without recourse to assumed etiologies. In this forum, we review problems with the current DSM IV diagnostic criteria, concerns with the proposed DSM‐5 diagnostic criteria, and present an alternative classification scheme for anorexia nervosa (AN), which more accurately captures the phenomenology of the disorder and is congruent in terminology with other fields of biomedicine. © 2010 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (Int J Eat Disord 2010)