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The DSM-5 - an interview with David Kupfer

David Kupfer

Author Affiliations

Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O’Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

BMC Medicine 2013, 11:203 doi:

Published: 12 September 2013

Abstract

In this podcast we talk to Prof David Kupfer about the challenges, controversies and future directions of DSM-5 by considering other research frameworks and classification systems of disease, and how this revised psychiatric diagnostic manual will impact global mental health classification and the field of medicine.

The podcast for this interview is available at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/sites/2999/download/Kupfer.mp3 webcite