ICD-11: Routine diagnostic tool without the splendor of classical psychopathology of the past

Abstract

The psychiatric section of ICD-11 is the subject of criticism both in the world and in the Russian psychiatric community. Russian psychiatrists find such shortcomings in the ICD-11 as excessive simplicity of presentation, lack of in-depth psychopathology, unjustified removal of gender dysphoria from the list of mental, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders. The authors of this article tend to consider the noted features of the new version of the ICD as advantages rather than disadvantages, and regard it far from ideal and in many ways inferior to the DSM-5, but quite suitable for the psychiatric practice diagnostic tool.