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Never Fear, the New DSM Won't 'Create More Addicts'

Deni Carise | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Mental Illness, Addiction, Treatment, Psychology, Recovery, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Alcoholism, Dsm 5, Dsm-Iv, Dsm 5 News, Healthy Living Health News, Addiction and Recovery, Dsm, Healthy Living News
Deni Carise

The new DSM will not cause more people to be diagnosed with addiction. Instead, more people who may not yet be addicted (but whose substance use is nonetheless unhealthy) will be able to access very inexpensive but proven effective treatment earlier and more easily.

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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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Alcohol in the Workplace: Cool Trend or Risky Policy?

Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D. | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Substance Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Workplace, Drinking, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Dsm 5, Drinking Problem, Mental Health, Addiction and Recovery, Dsm, Healthy Living News
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.

Is making alcohol available at the workplace justified by arguments such as long work hours, the blending of work and home life, or the expectation that employees will act responsibly? I would argue that it is not.

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If Gambling, Games, and Sex Are Addictive, What Is Addiction?

Stanton Peele | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Dsm-V, Gambling Addiction, Video Game Addiction, Sex Addiction, Charles O'Brien, Dsm 5, Mental Health News, Mental Health, Addiction and Recovery, Dsm, Healthy Living News
Stanton Peele

DSM 5's announcement that the psychiatric diagnostic manual will, for the first time, call something addictive that doesn't involve substance abuse -- gambling -- has opened the floodgates.

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Medical Specialists Will Try to Reduce Excessive Diagnostic Testing

Allen Frances | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Dsm 5, Over-Treatment, Over-Diagnosis, Medical Costs, Screening Tests, Preventive Psychiatry, Healthy Living Health News, Routine Tests, Mental Health, Routine Screening Tests, Health Care, Dsm, Routine Lab Tests, Healthy Living News
Allen Frances

The new initiative by nine medical specialty groups to reduce unneeded diagnostic testing and treatment recognizes that many medical tests and procedures are not only wasteful, but also cause more harm than good.

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Deconstructing Psychiatry's Ever-Expanding Bible

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Context-Embeddedness, Depression, Dsm-5, Grief, Human Interrelatedness, Psychiatric Diagnoses, Retraumatizatin, Isolated Minds, Metaphysical Dualism, Dsm, Healthy Living News
Robert D. Stolorow

Recent studies have called into question the fifth and latest version of psychiatry's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual's creation of new diagnostic e...

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The False Epidemic of Childhood Bipolar Disorder

Allen Frances | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Dsm 5, Bipolar Disorder Treatment, Fads, Epidemics, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood Bipolar Disorder, Children Bipolar Disorder, Dsm, Bipolar Medication, Antipsychotics, Mental Health, Healthy Living Health News, Bipolar in Children, Antipsychotic Medication, Healthy Living News
Allen Frances

Childhood bipolar disorder used to be vanishingly rare, but has recently become far too common -- in just 15 years, rates have jumped an amazing 40-fold.

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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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Aggrieved Over Grief As A Diagnosis In DSM

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Depression, Grief, Dsm, Dsm 5, Grief Depression, Symptoms of Depression, Dsm-5, Dsm Depression, Grieving Depression, Mental Health, Dsm V, Grief and Loss, Healthy Living News
Robert David Jaffee

My concern is that if we add grief, or internet addiction or "Facebook depression" to an already-growing number of diagnoses, we are likely to find that nearly everyone on this planet suffers from mental illness.

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When Does Grief Become Mental Illness?

Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D. | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Depression, Terminal Illness, Grief, Dealing With Grief, Grief Loss, Symptoms of Depression, Dsm Depression, Dsm Criteria, Mental Health, Dsm Diagnosis, Depression Symptoms, Dsm, Grief Support, Grief and Loss, Healthy Living News
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.

We should continue our cultural tradition of recognizing grief as a normal (and expected) human experience. If anything, the grieving person may benefit from support and sympathy, rather than being diagnosed as mentally ill and treated as such.

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Revisions to Psychiatry's 'Bible' Have People Crying Overmedication -- But Don't Freak Out Just Yet

Kaitlin Bell Barnett | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Overmedication, Medication, Dsm, Dsm-Iv, Dsm Criteria, Dsm 4, Mental Health, Dsm Diagnosis, Dsm V, Healthy Living News
Kaitlin Bell Barnett

For what might strike a lot of people as inside baseball, the debate over the upcoming edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is garnering a lot of media attention.

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: How Do You Know If You Have Mental Illness?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Video, Depression, Mental Health, Diagnosis, Talk Nerdy to Me, Schizophrenia, Science, Adhd, Psychology, Cara Santa Maria, Autism, Dsm, Education News

2011-12-09-Screenshot20111209at8.41.34AM.jpgHow many times have you said to yourself, "I'm so depressed today." Or "I'm totally OCD about my closet. It weirds me out when anything's out of place." Does this mean you have a mental illness?

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Cara Santa Maria

Psychiatry And Modern Science: Perspectives On The DSM

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Psychiatry, Mental Disorders, Mental Illness, Psychodynamics, Talk Nerdy to Me, Freud, Diagnostics, Science, Psychology, Skepticism, Dsm, Robert Spitzer, Education News

The DSM is the go-to manual for diagnostic criteria of a wide range of mental disorders, but some question it's validity and reliability.

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General Mills Shows that Exporting Knowledge Can Make a Difference

Tamar Abrams | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Zambia, Africa, Dsm, Malawi, Volunteers, Nonprofits, Value Chain, General Mills, Partners in Food Solutions, Malnutrition, Thanksgiving, Kofi Annan, Cargill, Hunger, Farmers, Hillary Clinton, Tanzania, Kenya, Minneapolis, Impact News
Tamar Abrams

General Mills knows a thing or two about Zambia. It is one of four African countries where General Mills has been actively working to reduce malnutrition and insecurity.

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World Sight Day: A See Change

Stephan B. Tanda | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Vitamin Angels, Blindness, Unicef, Dsm, Copenhagen Consensus, Public Health, Vitamin a Deficiency, Zinc Deficiency, Child Health, Stephan Tanda, Anne Sullivan, World Health Organization, Helen Keller International, Micronutrients, Healthcare Policy, World Food Programme, Sight and Life, World Sight Day, Impact News
Stephan B. Tanda

Given the tremendous personal, economic and societal loss that occurs as a consequence of preventable blindness, it is unacceptable that more is not being done.

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Green Revolution Can Provide Food and Fuel

Stephan B. Tanda | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Population, Industrial Revolution, Biofuels, Industrial Biotechnology, Dsm, Biochemistry, Green Revolution, Bric, Stephan Tanda, Biomass, Fossil Fuels, Green Industrial Revolution, Environment, Oil, Sustainability, Food, Climate Change, Green News
Stephan B. Tanda

The human race will be around in a hundred years, even if oil won't -- in a big way at least. We will have long gone back to living off the land by that point, just as we did before the modern industrial revolution changed life seemingly irrevocably.

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It Takes a Global Society to Feed a Child

Stephan B. Tanda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Children, Social Security, Physical Security, Economy, Dsm, Non-Profit, United Nations, Green, Globalization, Innovation, Hidden Hunger, Business, Wealth Gap, Stephan Tanda, Financial Regulations, Government, National Security, Climate Change, Private Sector, Poor, World Food Programme, Society, Development, Food Price, World Economic Forum, Low-Carbon, Poverty, Africa, Tunisia, Food Crisis, Speculation, Malnutrition, Tanda, Rich, Agriculture Reform, Csr, Argiculture, Undernutrition, Davos, Hunger, Education, Child, Nutrition, Health, Ngos, Protests, Market Speculation, Hillary Clinton, Civil Strife, Millennium Development Goals, Food Security, Impact News
Stephan B. Tanda

When delegates convene at the World Economic Forum this week in Davos, I hope that one positive result of the food price crisis will be the recognition that we cannot succeed in a failing world.

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A Market Solution to Help the World's Poor?

Stephan B. Tanda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Dsm, United Nations, Innovation, International Finance Corporation, Hidden Hunger, Business, Stephan Tanda, South Africa, Vitamins, Base of the Pyramid, Micronutrients, Poverty Reduction, Minerals, Economic Growth for Developing Countries, Development, Poverty Alleviation, Poverty, Social Innovation, Ecommerce, World Resources Institute, Developing Countries, Malnutrition, New York, Mdgs, Trade, Nutrition, Millennium Development Goals, Health, Bangladesh, Global Poverty, Free Market, Food Fortification, World News
Stephan B. Tanda

Is there a real business in helping the world's poor? According to the World Resources Institute and the International Finance Corporation, there is.

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Haiti: Human foundation key to recovery

Stephan B. Tanda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chile, Millenium Development Goal, Wfp, Public-Private Partnerships, United Nations, World Bank, Economic Development, Public/Private Partnerships, Malnutrition, Hidden Hunger, Stephan Tanda, Dsm, Undernutrition, Chile Earthquake, Haiti Earthquake, Gdp, Nutrition, Health, Haiti, Haiti Disaster Relief, Food, Haiti Earthquake Relief, World Food Programme, Development, World News
Stephan B. Tanda

Haiti has rarely been a country that makes the news for the right reasons. But six months ago the whole world's attention was focused on this small C...

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Grow, Baby, Grow

Stephan B. Tanda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Congress, Green Collar Economy, Carbon Emissions, Dsm, Agriculture, Energy Security, Washington DC, Sustainable Agriculture, Bipartisan, Gulf Oil Spill, Green Energy, Stephan Tanda, Plastics, Politics, Senate, Biotechnology, Biomass, Carbon Tax, Bio Fuel, Oil Spill, Green-Collar Jobs, Chemical, Sarah Palin, Emission Caps, Oil, Green Economy, Climate Change, Job Creation, R&D, World Economic Forum, Climate Bill, Politics News
Stephan B. Tanda

Who could forget Sarah Palin's famous line during the 2008 presidential campaign: "Drill, baby, drill!" With the current environmental and economic di...

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The Hazards of Psychiatric Diagnosis

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, Counseling, Psychotherapy, Depression, Peter Breggin, Mental Health, Adhd, Empathy, Dsm, Bipolar, Peter Breggin MD, Mental Illness, Empathic Therapy, Schizophrenia, Psychiatric Drugs, Psychiatric Diagnoses, Psychiatric Diagnosis, Anxiety, Health, Healthy Living News
Dr. Peter Breggin

Psychiatric diagnoses seem to give us important information about ourselves and our emotional ills. In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives.

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Empowering Women and Their Communities Through Nutrition Security

Stephan B. Tanda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Issues, International Women's Day, Women's Health, Nutrition, Malnutrition, Stephan Tanda, Dsm, World News
Stephan B. Tanda

Across the developing world, women are disproportionately affected by malnutrition, or "hidden hunger." This is a personal tragedy for those involved, but also economically perverse.

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Are we seeing the end of 'corporate philanthropy'?

Stephan B. Tanda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philanthropy, Dsm, Nutrition, Malnutrition, Hidden Hunger, World Food Programme, Haiti, Stephan Tanda, World Food Program, World News
Stephan B. Tanda

This week's gathering in San Francisco of the 9th Annual Global Philanthropy Forum Conference will bring together the leading voices from the NGO comm...

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

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thomas Szasz, Dopamine, Walden Two, Dsm, Drug Companies, Richard P. Bentall, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Prozac, Psychosis, Fda, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Schizophrenia, Madness, American Psychiatric Association, Ssris, B. F. Skinner, Neurotransmitters, Evidence-Based Medicine, Treatment of Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Depression, Chlorpromazine, Drug Company Profits, Randomized Controlled Trials, Mental Asylums, Big Pharma, Ect, Placebo, Rose Kennedy, Insulin Coma Therapy, Antipsychiatry, Mental Illness, Pharmaceutical Industry, R. D. Laing, Brain Chemistry, Carl Rogers, Prefrontal Leucotomy, Psychiatric Drugs, Genetics, Psychiatric Practice, Walter Freeman, Emil Kraepelin, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Book Reviews, Books, Books News
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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