Because it's much shorter than "standard diagnostic manual" and means about the same thing. To say "the media ran a bunch of slam articles" gives the wrong imp

Because it's much shorter than "standard diagnostic manual" and means about the same thing. To say "the media ran a bunch of slam articles" gives the wrong impression, in my view. There is a wide and serious critique. When one of the loudest critics of DSM V is the chairman of DSM IV, that's more than a smear campaign. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Frances http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Frances