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THE NIMH WITHDRAWS SUPPORT TO DSM-5 28/12/2015 -
The National Institute of Mental Health, the world´s largest funding agency for research into mental health, has indicated that it is withdrawing support for the manual.In a humiliating blow to the American Psychiatric Association, Thomas R. Insel, M.D., Director of the NIMH, made clear the agency would no longer fund research projects that rely exclusively on DSM criteria. Henceforth, the NIMH would be “re-orienting its research away from DSM categories.” "The weakness” of the manual, he explained in a sharply worded statement, “is its lack of validity.” Insel states: “Patients with mental disorders deserve better.