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ICD-11 and mental disorders: Important changes, controversies, and future directions

Guest Editor:
Florian Seemüller: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 31 July 2024


BMC Psychiatry invites submissions for the collection discussing the important controversies and future directions for mental health research in light of the revised International Classification of Diseases.

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) is the 11th edition of the global categorization system for physical and mental illnesses published by the World Health Organization (WHO). The ICD-11 is the revised version of the ICD-10 and the first update to be developed and published in two decades, which has led to much debate.

For this collection, BMC Psychiatry invites all experts in the field of psychiatry to contribute to the discussion on how ICD-11 might affect clinical practice in their specific areas of psychiatric medicine. This collection discusses the influence the ICD-11 may have on the diagnosis and treatment of addiction disorders, personality disorders, trauma-related and stressor-related disorders, mood disorders (including major depression and bipolar disorders), and schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

Meet the Guest Editor

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Florian Seemüller: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

Dr. Florian Seemüller is Associate Professor for Psychiatry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and Chief Physician of the kbo-Lech-Mangfall-Clinics for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Peißenberg.

He joined BMC Psychiatry in 2008. His research is focused on German healthcare, on short and long-term outcome of unipolar affective disorders, suicide research, and on bipolar affective disorders.

He started his scientific career with the Stanley Foundation Bipolar Network (SFBN) and is engaged in several international and national working groups: Lithium Research (IGSLi) German Research Network on Depression and Suicidality (GRNDS), Bavarian Institute for Data, Analyses and Quality management (BIDAQ).

About the collection

BMC Psychiatry  invites submissions for the collection discussing the important controversies and future directions for mental health research in light of the revised International Classification of Diseases.

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) is the 11th edition of the global categorization system for physical and mental illnesses published by the World Health Organization (WHO). The ICD-11 is the revised version of the ICD-10 and the first update to be developed and published in two decades, which has led to much debate. 

For this collection, BMC Psychiatry invites all experts in the field of psychiatry to contribute to the discussion on how ICD-11 might affect clinical practice in their specific areas of psychiatric medicine. This collection discusses the influence the ICD-11 may have on the diagnosis and treatment of addiction disorders, personality disorders, trauma-related and stressor-related disorders, mood disorders (including major depression and bipolar disorders), and schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

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Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submissions in the form of research articles, and systematic reviews. Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "ICD-11 and Mental Disorders: Important Changes, Controversies, and Future Directions" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.