The initial field trials of DSM-5: new blooms and old thorns.

@article{Freedman2013TheIF,
  title={The initial field trials of DSM-5: new blooms and old thorns.},
  author={Robert Freedman and David A. Lewis and Robert Michels and Daniel S. Pine and Susan K. Schultz and Carol A. Tamminga and Glen Owens Gabbard and Susan Shur-Fen Gau and Daniel C. Javitt and Maria A. Oquendo and Patrick E. Shrout and Eduard Vieta and Joel Yager},
  journal={The American journal of psychiatry},
  year={2013},
  volume={170 1},
  pages={
          1-5
        }
}
Three articles in this issue detail the process and results of reliability tests for proposed DSM-5 diagnoses and cross-diagnosis symptom domains. The editorial highlights the good reliability of borderline personality disorder and relates the questionable reliability of major depressive disorder to its heterogeneity. The editorial is also available in Spanish, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. 
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