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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

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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Changes to Mental Health Diagnosis Could Impact Caregivers

Leann Reynolds | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Family Caregiving, Caregiver, Caregiving, Mental Health, Caregiver Tips, Dsm 5, Depression, Healthy Living Health News, Anxiety, Healthy Living News

How mental health professionals diagnose their patients could be changing, therefore affecting patients, families, and caregivers, after 2013.

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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

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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Politics in the Diagnosis of Addiction

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Dsm-5, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Dsm-Iv, Nora Volkow, Addiction Definition, Dsm Addiction, Healthy Living Health News, Addiction and Recovery, Healthy Living News

There is an inescapable conceptual struggle when dealing with America's volatile history of, and attitudes toward, substance use. In other words, the meaning of addiction is a never-ending American, and thus worldwide, cultural debate.

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40% Of College Students Are Alcoholics, According To New Guidelines

time.com | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Alcoholics, College Alcoholism, Dsm 5, College Alcoholics, Alcohol, College News

Are you or have you ever been a college binge drinker? Welcome to alcoholism, a diagnosis your college self could qualify for under the changes propos...

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Psychiatric Mislabeling Is Bad for Your Mental Health

Allen Frances | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Over-Treatment, Dsm-5, Over-Diagnosis, Mental Health, Mental Health Diagnosis, Mental Health Stigma, Mental Health Care, Psychiatric Diagnosis, Science News

Unfortunately, DSM 5 will make the current problems with mislabeling much worse. Its new proposals (with the possible exception of autism) all cast a wider diagnostic net that will lead to much looser and less accurate diagnosis.

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DSM 5 Rejects 'Hebephilia' Except for the Fine Print

Allen Frances | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Hebephilia, Rape, Dsm-5, Pedophilia, Hypersexuality, Science News

The prize for the most wayward of all the DSM 5 work groups must surely go to the sexual disorders group -- creators of three remarkably off-beat proposals.

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Wonderful News: DSM 5 Finally Begins Its Belated and Necessary Retreat

Allen Frances | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Eating Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorder, Depression, Psychosis Risk, Anxiety, Dsm 5, Science News

Sigh of relief. The DSM 5 website announced Wednesday morning that two of its most controversial proposals have finally been dropped. We have dodged bullets on "psychosis risk" and "mixed anxiety depression." Both are now definitively rejected as official DSM 5 diagnoses.

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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

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

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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Definitive Study Rejects the Diagnosis of 'Psychosis Risk' and Finds No Treatment Benefit

Allen Frances | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Dsm 5, Antipsychotics, Psychosis Risk, Prevention, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Healthy Living Health News, Mental Health, Psychosis Prevention, Mental Health Research, Psychosis, Psychosis Disorder, Healthy Living News

A new study on the effectiveness of psychosis prevention is a clear caution against the DSM 5 proposal for a psychosis risk syndrome, and it should temper enthusiasm for rushing ahead with "ultra high risk" prevention programs.

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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

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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Will New DSM-5 Diagnosis End 'Dementia' Stigma?

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Stigma, Dementia Diagnosis, Dementia, Mci, Health Labels, Elder Care, Alzheimer's, Lewy Body Dementia, Major Neurocognitive Disorder, Frontotemporal Dementia, Mncd, Dsm-5, Mental Health, Healthy Living Health News, Healthy Living News

"Dementia" is a loaded word, one that carries with it the baggage of hundreds of years of gross associations and misunderstanding of the reality of the person living with the illness.

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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

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

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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Are You Depressed? Or Are You Grieving?

Ira Israel | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Dsm 5, Depression, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Grief, Grief vs. Depression, Grief Depression, Grief and Depression, Healthy Living News

I would like to explore the possibility that our scientific and capitalistic paradigm has an aversion to heightened emotions and doesn't allow sufficient bereavement time because grieving can hinder productivity, busyness and business.

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Do We All Have Behavioral Addictions?

Allen Frances | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Addiction, Dsm 5, Compulsive Gambling, Internet Addiction, Compulsive Overeating, Compulsive Shopping, Mental Health, Dsm-5, Addiction and Recovery, Behavioral Addictions Dsm 5, Behavioral Addiction, Behavioral Addictions, Health News, Healthy Living News

The relentless march to medicalize normality out of existence is opening a new and especially ridiculous front. The DSM-5 suggests providing a new section for "behavioral addictions."

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'Xanax' Nation? My Anti-Anxiety Meds Give Me Enough to Worry About

Kaitlin Bell Barnett | Posted 05.27.2012

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Journalists love declaring that psychiatric medications symbolize some slice of the zeitgeist. So I can't say I was entirely surprised when I opened my mailbox the other day and saw New York Magazine's latest cover article proclaiming that this is the era of Xanax.

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A Turning Point for DSM 5: Will the APA Trustees Finally Step Up to the Plate?

Allen Frances | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Dsm 5, Bereavement, Depression, Grief, Dealing With Grief, Grieving, Dsm 5 Grief Depression, DSM 5 Grief, DSM 5 Bereavement, Dsm 5 Depression, Dsm 5 Depression Grief, Science News

Psychiatry is an essential and wonderful profession that deserves much better leadership than it has so far received throughout the DSM 5 fiasco. It has come down to a now-or-never moment for the leaders of APA to finally come to plate and curb obvious DSM 5 excess.

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Am I a Dangerous Man?

Allen Frances | Posted 05.19.2012

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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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Predicting Psychosis Risk Is Pretty Risky

Allen Frances | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Childhood Obesity, Dsm 5, Antipsychotics, Attenuated Psychotic Syndrome, Over Diagnosis, Over Treatment, Psychotic Risk Syndrome, Psychosis Risk Dsm 5, Science News

Originally called 'psychosis risk,' it is now repackaged more modestly as 'attenuated psychotic symptoms.' However named or renamed, this is a dangerous idea with little benefit and extremely risky, unintended consequences.

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Taming the ADD Epidemic

Allen Frances | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Quality Control, Dsm 5, Over-Medication, Attention Deficit Disorder, Over-Diagnosis, Stimulant Medication, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Adhd, Add Epidemic, Healthy Living News

Martin Whitely offers a proven public health cure for this false "epidemic" of diagnosis and treatment, one that has already worked wonders in his native state of Western Australia.

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Attention Deficit Disorder Is Over-Diagnosed and Over-Treated

Allen Frances | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Dsm 5, Attention Deficit Disorder, Over-Diagnosis, Stimulant Medication, Over-Medication-Children, Mental Health, Healthy Living News

ADD has clearly become a public health problem. It is much less clear the degree to which the increased rates are real vs. being a manufactured fad. We have no definitive way to give precise weights to the three options or to determine what is the true rate of ADD.

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Is Government Intervention Needed to Prevent an Unsafe DSM 5?

Allen Frances | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Dsm 5, DSM 5 Petition, American Psychological Association, DSM 5 Government Intervention, DSM 5 Intervention, Science News

APA has failed to provide appropriate governance. Government intervention may turn out to be the only hope to prevent massive misdiagnosis and all its harmful, unintended consequences.

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DSM 5 Freezes Out Its Stakeholders

Allen Frances | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association, Over-Medication, Over-Treatment, DSM 5 Petition, Dsm 5, Science News

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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