By Dott. Pasquale Parise
12.12.23
Psychiatrist
The World of Obsessives: The Family Roots of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
With DSM-5, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the classification of obsessive disorders has been significantly revised. In particular, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) was moved from the category of anxiety disorders, to which it had previously been placed, and was relocated to a separate category, specially created for this disorder, and redefined as "OCD spectrum disorder." Let’s see what it is in this article by Dr. Pasquale Parise, specialist in Psychiatry in Rome