September/October 2023: Beyond Diagnosis: Are There New Ways to End Suffering?

This issue examines the subjects of diagnoses and diagnosing, including therapists’ attitudes toward the DSM and the diagnosing status quo, their search for alternative frameworks and means of diagnosing, and the growing trend of clients self-diagnosing. Articles cover a look at the current landscape of diagnostic frameworks and potential ways of diagnosing in the future, the increasing number of young people who are seeking an autism diagnosis, and how to traverse the fine line of diagnosing without pathologizing. Other pieces include a look at treating moral injury, the rise of and complications in self-diagnosis, the problem with the oppositional defiant disorder diagnosis, and what therapists can do when clinical buzzwords get misused by clients.