Debate: Pediatric bipolar disorder - divided by a common language?

The paediatric bipolar disorder ( pBD ) debate is seen as a prototypical transatlantic controversy. But this is a Eurocentric view that ignores just how big a country the United States is – it contains multitudes, to paraphrase Walt Whitman writing in the aftermath of the Civil War. Indeed, such are the multitudes that a child can receive a diagnosis of bipolar in one State, but not in a neighbouring one. It was the force of this intra‐American...