Psychiatric Diagnosis

Psychiatric Mislabeling Is Bad for Your Mental Health

Allen Frances | Posted 05.10.2012

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Allen Frances

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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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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Preventive Psychiatry Can Be Bad for Our Health

Allen Frances | Posted 03.20.2012

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Allen Frances

Preventive psychiatry may someday be of significant service in reducing the burden of human suffering -- but only if it can be done really well. And the sad truth is that we don't yet have the necessary tools.

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A Psychiatric Drug Story of Tragedy and Triumph

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Peter Breggin

people need to know how lifesaving it can be when health professionals dare to be honest about the hazards of psychiatric drugs and the value of empathic therapeutic approaches.

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The Hazards of Psychiatric Diagnosis

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

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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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Our Psychiatric Civilization

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Peter Breggin

We're so obsessed with psychiatry that patients devote themselves to adjusting their diagnoses and drugs, instead of addressing their lives.

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War Over Addiction: Evaluating The DSM-V

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: DSM Task Force, Dsm-Iv, Bipolar Disorder, Dsm-V, Addiction, Hypersexuality Disorder, Binge Eating Disorder, Substance Use Disorder, Stigma, Psychiatric Label, Psychiatric Diagnosis, Addiction & Recovery, Healthy Living News
Stanton Peele

You've heard about the Drug War? Well there's a war being fought over addiction by the Task Force revising the psychiatric bible in the United States.

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