American Psychiatric Association

DSM-5 Inaccuracies: Setting the Record Straight

James H. Scully, Jr., M.D. | Posted 05.31.2012

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James H. Scully, Jr., M.D.

In a recent piece on The Huffington Post, Allen Frances, M.D., demonstrates either an embarrassing lack of knowledge and understanding of financial reporting or an intentional misrepresentation of facts in his continuing effort to attack the forthcoming DSM-5.

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DSM-5 Costs $25 Million, Putting APA in a Financial Hole

Allen Frances | Posted 05.30.2012

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Allen Frances

Psychiatric diagnosis has become too important to be left in the hands of a small, withering, cash-strapped, incompetent association that feels compelled to regard its bottom line as a higher priority than having a safe, scientifically sound, and widely accepted diagnostic system.

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Spitzer Recants: Why Can't APA Admit Mistakes and Correct Them

Allen Frances | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: American Psychiatric Association, Psychosis Risk, Gay Rights, Dsm-5, Gay Issues, DSM 5 Petition, Bob-Spitzer, Dsm 5, APA DSM 5, DSM 5 APA, Science News
Allen Frances

If a legendary figure like Bob Spitzer can correct his mistakes, surely the American Psychiatric Association can do the same -- for the sake of protecting our patients and keeping the mental health field united.

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Autism and My Grandson's First Swim

Don McNay | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Autism Awareness, Bob and Suzanne Wright, Education, Cbs Morning News, Health, Natalie Merchant, Health Care Reform, Kentucky, Don McNay, Autism, American Psychiatric Association, Asperger's Syndrome, Parenting, Obamacare, Autism Speaks, Austitic Self Advocacy Network, Impact News
Don McNay

My grandson and I recently went to a baseball game. He is learning about the sport his grandfather loves. While we were there, he completely reprogrammed my cell phone. He fixed a problem in thirty seconds that Apple's tech people couldn't fix in three hours.

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Hopsice: Grief, Depression and the DSM -- Take Two

Jeanne Dennis | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Major Depression, Hospice, Depression, Grief, Dealing With Grief, Hospice Care, Dsm, Grieving, American Psychiatric Association, Mental Health, Healthy Living News
Jeanne Dennis

It is important that we continue to see -- and treat -- bereavement as a universal experience that is an integral part of life.

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Am I a Dangerous Man?

Allen Frances | Posted 05.19.2012

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Allen Frances

My motivation for taking on this unpleasant task is simple: to prevent DSM 5 from promoting a general diagnostic inflation that will result in the mislabeling of millions of people as mentally disordered.

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DSM 5 Freezes Out Its Stakeholders

Allen Frances | Posted 04.22.2012

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Allen Frances

Scary news. The Chair of the DSM 5 Task Force, Dr. David Kupfer, has indicated that 90 percent of the decisions on DSM 5 have already been made. Why so scary? DSM 5 proposes a radical redefinition of the boundary between mental disorder and normality.

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Can the Press Save DSM 5 from Itself?

Allen Frances | Posted 04.16.2012

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Allen Frances

Will the unfavorable press result in a more favorable DSM 5 outcome? We must hope so, because so few other corrective options are available. DSM 5 remains steadfast and rigid in its support of really bad proposals with extremely dangerous unintended public health consequences.

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Psychiatric Diagnosis by the People's Choice

Lawrence Diller, M.D. | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: American Psychiatric Association, Psychiatry, Attention Deficit Disorder, Depression, Asperger's Syndrome, Dsm-Iv, Dsm 4, Dsm Criteria, Dsm Iv, Dsm Diagnosis, Dsm V, DSM IV TR, Dsm, Mental Health, Healthy Living News
Lawrence Diller, M.D.

The American Psychiatric Association plans to release the newest edition of America's psychiatric bible, the DSM, in 2013. The effort to determine what constitutes normal and abnormal behavior in America is apparently an ongoing process.

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Should Grief Be Treated the Same as Depression?

Michael Stanclift, N.D. | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: American Psychiatric Association, Dsm 5, Grief Depression, Depression, Emotional Depression, Grief, Mental Health, Healthy Living Health News, Apa, Dsm V, Dsm, Grieving, Healthy Living News
Michael Stanclift, N.D.

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) may soon redefine what we know as grief to depression, if symptoms last more than two weeks.

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An End to Psychologists' Role in Interrogation?

Leonard Rubenstein | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Guantanamo, American Psychiatric Association, CIA Torture, Torture, Politics News
Leonard Rubenstein

The very foundation of the American Psychological Association's position on torture has been undermined with the release this month of its own Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychology.

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'Mass Psychosis In The U.S.'

Al Jazeera | James Ridgeway | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Big Pharma, American Psychiatric Association, Zyprexa, Anti-Depressant, Mother Jones, Risperdal, Bipolar, Acid Reflux, Fda, Anti-Psychotic Drugs, Seroquel, Mental Illness, Pharmedout, Schizophrenia, Pharmaceuticals, Abilify, Business News

Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with...

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The Need to Question Supposed Certain Sex 'Conditions'

Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Blogosphere, Female Sexual Disorder, Askmen, Add, Johnson & Johnson, Dsm-Iv, Attention Deficit Disorder, Sadd, Porn-Enabled Orgasm, Sex Expert, CNN Blogger, American Psychiatric Association, Sexual Attention Deficit Disorder, Porn, Ian Kerner, Sex, Healthy Living Body, Healthy Living News
Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright

The latest to get called out on concocting a condition is CNN blogger and sex expert Ian Kerner, who elicited harsh reactions with Sexual Attention Deficit Disorder (SADD).

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The Marketing Genius of Erectile Dysfunction

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Psychiatric Association, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, American Psychological Association, American Bar Association, Therapy, Depression, Mental Health, American Dental Association, Pfizer, Psychology, TV Advertising, Television, Pharmaceutical Industry, Erectile Dysfunction, Advertising, Viagra, Psychiatric Drugs, Marketing, American Medical Association, Business News
Sarah O'Leary

We must tip our hats to the creative and strategic geniuses among us who took one of the most embarrassing maladies literally known to man and made it sexy.

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Life is Not a Mental Disorder

Ronald Ricker | Posted 11.17.2011

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Ronald Ricker

DSM-IV-TR is the Bible of psychiatry, a reference guide to every mental disorder in the book...literally. The one diagnosis that conspicuously doesn't appear in DSM-IV-TR? No disorder.

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Dr. Judy on the Trauma of Disasters - like Haitian Earthquake

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

New York clinical psychologist and well-known TV and radio personality Judy Kuriansky, Ph.D. just returned from Haiti where she trained "comforters" -...

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Today's Isolated Kids = Tomorrow's Killers?

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jay Pullen, Diane Dimond, Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz, The Attachment Healing Center in Albuquerque, Reactive Attachment Disorder, American Psychiatric Association, Today's Isolated Kids = Tomorrow's Killers?, RAD Kids, Diane Dimond's Column, Home News
Diane Dimond

Every human being needs to feel connected - attached - to other human beings around them. It's an innate craving we all have and cannot fight. The h...

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Why Hasn't President Obama Changed His Policy on Writing Letters of Condolence ?

Michael Blumenfield, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Psychiatric Association, Condolence Letters, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Mental Health America, Congressman Dan Burton, Chancellor Keesling, President Obama, Suicide, Gregg Keesling, Michael Blumenfield, Politics News
Michael Blumenfield, M.D.

Part of the solution should be acknowledging that mental illness in the form of suicidal behavior can be brought about or exacerbated by the rigors of military service. When this results in the death of one of our soldiers, their loved ones deserve our sympathy and understanding.

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What If We Had A National Institute Of Addiction?

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011

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Stanton Peele

We don't have one now - we have a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). This nomenclature has consequences

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The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anis Shivani

Dr. Richard P. Bentall, professor and practitioner of clinical psychology in Britain, exposes the highly dubious nature of reigning presumptions about the causes and treatment of mental illness.

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FDA Considers Caving to Scientology and Making Mental Illness Treatment Illegal

DJ Jaffe | Posted 11.17.2011

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DJ Jaffe

As far-fetched as it sounds, the FDA is considering making it more difficult to treat depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and psychosis.

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40 Years Old and All I Get is This Damn Rainbow Flag?

Michael DeJong | Posted 11.17.2011

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Michael DeJong

The modern "Gay Rights Movement" has had and still has racism, classism, misogyny, ageism, and trans-phobia at its core.

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Psychologists Under Fire For Role In Torture

Inter Press Service | Posted 05.25.2011

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By William Fisher NEW YORK, May 7 (IPS) - A leading human rights organisation is charging that an American Psychological Association (APA) task fo...

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NPR Embarrassed by Psychiatrist Host: Bad Apple or Bad Barrel?

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, National Public Radio, Charles Grassley, Health, Npr, Frederick Goodwin, American Psychiatric Association, Heath Ledger, Joseph Biederman, Bruce E. Levine, Media News
Bruce E. Levine

NPR announced that it had fired psychiatrist Frederick Goodwin. Goodwin was released after NPR learned that he had received at least $1.3 million from drug companies between 2000 and 2007.

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