The ICD and DSM help shape how researchers, clinicians, and society understand mental health. While there is substantial overlap between the two, different iterations of the two manuals have added, ...

The World Health Organization removed “transsexualism” from the International Classification of Diseases, a diagnostic manual of illnesses used by most countries around the world. The change was ...

According to a recent publication, ICD-11 (the International Classification of Disease, used as a coding manual in healthcare) may very well include a diagnosis called “Compulsive Sexual Behavior ...

What do anxiety, alcoholism and gaming have in common? They can all be found in the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Classification of Diseases (ICD) manual. That's right - "gaming ...

University of Liverpool provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Traditional psychiatry uses the approaches of medicine to try to understand mental health problems and guide ...