Does your patient meet criteria? Reflection on contemporary psychiatric practice.

1 Psychiatrist. Associate professor, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Chief, Psychiatry and Medical Psychology Service, Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. 2 Psychiatrist. MSc in Public Health, PhD in Health Sciences. Coordinator, Psychiatric Clinic, Instituto de Previdência dos Servidores do Estado de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. 3 Psychiatrist. Full professor of Clinical Psychopathology, Laboratoire de Psychopathologie Clinique et Psychanalyse, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France. Tenured professor of Psychopathology, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medical Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil. Head, Laboratory of Psychopathology: Subject and Singularity (Laboratório de Psicopatologia: Sujeito e Singularidade – LaPSuS), UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil. 4 Psychiatrist. MSc and PhD in Medical Sciences. Full professor, Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. 5 Psychiatrist. MSc in Philosophy. PhD in Sciences. Associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, PR, Brazil. 6 Psychiatrist. PhD in Medicine. Full professor, Department of Medical Psychology and Psychiatry, School of Medical Sciencs, UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil. 7 Psychiatrist. PhD in Mental Health. Former professor, Graduate Program in Mental Health, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Financial support: none. Suggested citation: Brasil MA, Rocha FL, Pereira ME, Fleck MP, Bessa MA, Botega N, et al. Does your patient meet criteria? Reflection on contemporary psychiatric practice. Trends Psychiatry Psychother. 2015;37(4):169-170. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2237-6089-2015-1002 Notwithstanding, the psychiatric community and those responsible for creating the DSM identified the risks and possibilities for deviations in its use. The introduction to the latest edition, DSM-5,2 includes the following recommendation (page 19):