Abstract
Classifications are an evolutionistic answer to individual generalizations. They are conceived to establish common grounds and shared languages, and to fight “natural” chaos. Especially from Rudolf Clausius (entropy) and Ludwig Boltzmann (statistical mechanics) have we learned that chaos can be triggered – in fact always is triggered – by strictly deterministic causes (Cardwell, 1971). We have also learned that, from a deterministic point of view, we can’t go on for more than three levels of physical interventions; after that we should be prepared to face the chaos. Incidentally, Boltzmann was a bipolar sufferer and a believer in a truly Darwinistic perspective for cultural evolution. He hanged himself in 1906, during a summer holiday near Trieste (which at the time belonged to the Austro-Hungarian empire). Suicidologists, neuroscientists, epidemiologists, mentalhealth professionals, and many more (not the least patients) will soon be challenged in their nosographic habits (or destinies) by the new versions of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11, to be released in 2015) and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V, expected to be released in early 2013). The latter constitutes the focus of this editorial.
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