For many mental health professionals, familiarity with the diagnostic system described in the American Psychiatric Association's "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM) is a fundamental competency. There are some major barriers to postgraduate students engaging energetically with the DSM taxonomy and manual. First, trainees often have negative views about the process of diagnosis itself, particularly the biomedical tone of diagnoses in DSM. Second, DSM is a dynamic work in progress but it is difficult for trainees to get a sense of this from the manual. This book...