Past Issues

    The American Psychiatric Association (APA) finalized the content of the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM-5)at its December 2012 board of trustee’s meeting [1, 2] and decided to release the monograph to the public in May 2013. DSM-IV [3] was published in 1994. Nineteen years have been elapsed when DSM-5is to be published. It is a big event in psychiatry in the world for its publication.

    The APA used to post post the proposed drafts of DSM-5on the APA website for soliciting feedback from the membership. Now, APA’s com-mercial interest dictates to protect the news-wor-thiness of the complete final criteria and the texts. I think that the timing to write a brief summarized changes of its context on the eve of its publication is appropriate. The information in this editorial is all obtained from published scattered features in newsletters or articles. Contents of the final words should be referred to the contents of DSM-5.