<Li> the role of practical rather than scientific considerations </Li> <Li> the issue of use by clinicians or researchers </Li> <Li> whether an entirely different diagnostic system is required . </Li> <P> In 2011, psychologist Brent Robbins co-authored a national letter for the Society for Humanistic Psychology that has brought thousands into the public debate about the DSM . Over 15,000 individuals and mental health professionals have signed a petition in support of the letter . Thirteen other American Psychological Association divisions have endorsed the petition . Robbins has noted that under the new guidelines, certain responses to grief could be labeled as pathological disorders, instead of being recognized as being normal human experiences . </P>

One of the major contributions of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders was to