Quotes About DSM-V

bitter fights over revisions for the DSM-V—which have included public denunciations of it by the chairmen of the task forces that produced the DSM-III and DSM-IV, respectively—suggest that psychiatric diagnosis may be more a matter of politics and marketing than either art or science. c

The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) cautions: "Many highly successful individuals display personality traits that might be considered narcissistic. Only when those traits are inflexible, maladaptive, and persisting, and cause significant functional impairment or subjective distress do they constitute narcissistic personality disorder