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. 2014 May 16:7:155-60.
doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S41386. eCollection 2014.

A proposal for including nomophobia in the new DSM-V

Nicola Luigi Bragazzi  1 , Giovanni Del Puente  2
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A proposal for including nomophobia in the new DSM-V

Nicola Luigi Bragazzi et al. Psychol Res Behav Manag. .

Abstract

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is considered to be the gold standard manual for assessing the psychiatric diseases and is currently in its fourth version (DSM-IV), while a fifth (DSM-V) has just been released in May 2013. The DSM-V Anxiety Work Group has put forward recommendations to modify the criteria for diagnosing specific phobias. In this manuscript, we propose to consider the inclusion of nomophobia in the DSM-V, and we make a comprehensive overview of the existing literature, discussing the clinical relevance of this pathology, its epidemiological features, the available psychometric scales, and the proposed treatment. Even though nomophobia has not been included in the DSM-V, much more attention is paid to the psychopathological effects of the new media, and the interest in this topic will increase in the near future, together with the attention and caution not to hypercodify as pathological normal behaviors.

Keywords: behavioral dependence; mobile phone; social phobia; specific phobia.

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