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NIMH Director Thomas Insel has announced that the institute will be moving away from the DSM's symptom-based diagnosis towards "precision medicine"; a system based on the "emerging research data". The NIMH have formed the NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): As Insel puts it, "RDoC is...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=shades-of-grief Comment here: Anecdotally, I'd estimate that it took me 2-3 years to get back on track after my father's death. Why is the mental health community so obsessed with defining what the "normal" durations and ranges are for human...