<Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> The goal of this new manual, as with all previous editions, is to provide a common language for describing psychopathology . While DSM has been described as a "Bible" for the field, it is, at best, a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each . The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been "reliability"--each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways . The weakness is its lack of validity...Patients with mental disorders deserve better . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <P> Insel also discussed an NIMH effort to develop a new classification system, Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), currently for research purposes only . Insel's post sparked a flurry of reaction, some of which might be termed sensationalistic, with headlines such as "Goodbye to the DSM - V", "Federal institute for mental health abandons controversial' bible' of psychiatry", "National Institute of Mental Health abandoning the DSM", and "Psychiatry divided as mental health' bible' denounced". Other responses provided a more nuanced analysis of the NIMH Director's post . </P> <P> In May 2013, Insel, on behalf of NIMH, issued a joint statement with Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD, president of the American Psychiatric Association, that emphasized that DSM - 5 "...represents the best information currently available for clinical diagnosis of mental disorders . Patients, families, and insurers can be confident that effective treatments are available and that the DSM is the key resource for delivering the best available care . The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has not changed its position on DSM - 5 ." Insel and Lieberman say that DSM - 5 and RDoC "represent complementary, not competing, frameworks" for characterizing diseases and disorders . However, epistemologists of psychiatry tend to see the RDoC project as a putative revolutionary system that in the long run will try to replace the DSM, its expected early effect being a liberalization of the research criteria, with an increasing number of research centers adopting the RDoC definitions . </P>

Dsm iv or v (the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders version 4 or 5)