Abstract
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a diagnostic and statistical system for classifying mental disorders according to the categorical model for clinical practice and research in psychiatry prepared by the APA (American Psychiatric Association). This manual is constantly revised and reissued to update its psychodiagnostic classifications. In this sense, the present article aimed to make a comparative analysis between the classes and the diagnostic categories of the clinical frameworks related to anxiety disorders, mood alterations and childhood and adolescent disorders in the DSM-IV and DSM-V, to map which clinical entities were included, excluded or merged, forming new diagnostic classes and categories in the most updated version of the manual. The methodology used was qualitative bibliographic and documentary research through a descriptive study and a comparative data analysis. The results regarding the comparison of diagnostic classes and categories point to significant increases in the three analyzed axes that open the doors to debate the consequences of the pathologization and medicalization of human conditions such as PMS, sadness, energetic behavior of children and rebels of teenagers.
Keywords:
DSM; medicalization; psychodiagnosis; psychopathology; psychic suffering
