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DSM-5-TR

American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition, Text Revision. 2022.

Key provisions used in wiki

  • Establishes the bright line between clinical diagnosis (which requires licensed professional judgment) and colloquial description of symptoms
  • Defines diagnostic criteria for mental disorders that AI systems must not independently apply or confirm
  • Provides the authoritative taxonomy that InvisibleBench uses to test whether AI companions avoid crossing into diagnostic territory
  • Distinguishes between acknowledging someone's experience ("that sounds really hard") and diagnosing a condition ("you have depression"), a critical boundary for AI safety
  • Informs scope-creep scenarios where users press AI systems to confirm or deny specific DSM diagnoses