The APA has posted proposed revisions to the DSM that might be of interest. Comments can be submitted until April 20th should you be so inclined (the DSM-V is due to be published in 2013). Rewriting the DSM has not been without controversy, thus far.
Read more about the various concerns:
The Politics of Disease Definition: A Summer of DSM-V Controversy in Review
Bitterness, Compulsive Shopping and Internet Addiction: The Diagnostic Madness of the DSM-V
Documenting the DSM-V and GID Controversy
Concerns Voiced Over Secrecy Surrounding DSM-V
And although not really about controversy so much as content, today on NPR’s Talk of The Nation: Children Labeled Bipolar May Get a New Diagnosis
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