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Newsletter: Editor's Note 2001
This department salutes progress. Last year's revision of psychiatry's most recent handbook classifying clinical diagnoses includes (under Code V62.89) the alert that people may experience distress related to religious and spiritual experience without necessarily suffering a mental disorder.
Only since the 1994 update of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) has religious anxiety, along with “malingering” and the antisocial behavior of “thieves, racketeers, or dealers in illegal substances” been accorded such respect. If the experience is “more integrating than disintegrating,” then, as the DSM-IV Sourcebook suggests, diagnoses of mania, schizophrenia, or hysteria may not be indicated. The religious studies faculty agrees with this new finding. Issues of differential diagnosis aside, welcome to the noting of our scholarly behaviors in these columns. You, reader, may judge whether our news reflects a collective experience more integrating than disintegrating. Special thanks to MA candidates, Emily Aleshire and Amy Polit, for their help with this issue. KL
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