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DSM-5 released: professional and campaigning reaction: Round up #7
DSM-5 released: professional and campaigning reaction: Round up #7 Post #262 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-3cF A considerable amount of media coverage and commentary on DSM-5 has been published since… more →
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DSM-5 released: professional and campaigning reaction: Round up #7
wrote 5 days ago: DSM-5 released: professional and campaigning reaction: Round up #7 Post #262 Shortlink: http://wp.me … more →
Somatic Symptom Disorder in recent journal papers
wrote 1 week ago: Somatic Symptom Disorder in recent journal papers Post #261 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-3ah Somati … more →
DSM-V: Let’s Fight Big Pharma’s Crusade to Turn Eccentricity Into Illness
wrote 2 weeks ago: POSTED BY ALLEN FRANCES I 05.17.13 I 6:30 AM @ Wired.com BOOK EXCERPT Saving Normal BY ALLEN FRANCES … more →
Freud Museum Annual Lecture 2013: How Well Does Freud’s Work Stand the Test of Time? (Allen Frances, MD)
wrote 3 weeks ago: Freud Museum Annual Lecture 2013 The Freud Museum and King’s College London present The Freud Memori … more →
DSM-5 released: Media, professional and advocacy reaction: Round up #6
wrote 3 weeks ago: Post #256 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-34A For earlier responses to the release of DSM-5 see Round … more →
Saving Normal from DSM-5
wrote 3 weeks ago: Saving Normal, by Allen Frances, the psychiatrist who led the task force for the DSM IV, is a must … more →
DSM-5 released: Media, professional and advocacy reaction: Round up #5
wrote 3 weeks ago: Post #255 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-346 For earlier responses to the release of DSM-5 see Posts … more →
DSM-5 released: Media, professional and advocacy reaction: Round up #4
wrote 3 weeks ago: Post #254 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-33A For earlier responses to the release of DSM-5 see Posts … more →
Psychiatric Madmen? New manual makes everyone mentally sick.
wrote 4 weeks ago: Perhaps an alternate title for this would be “We’re in it for the money.” See also … more →
Yahoo Buys Tumblr, Prompting 40 Million 20-Year-Olds to Ask: "Ya who?"
wrote 4 weeks ago: Let’s Get Ready to Tumbl Today, another large deal was made in a bid to make history in the In … more →
Dramatic growth in antipsychotic drug use even targets infants, experts say
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wrote 1 month ago: Dr. Dina Panagiotopoulos’s investigations into some of the most potent psychiatric drugs on the mark … more →
DSM-5 released: Media, professional and advocacy reaction: Round up #3
wrote 1 month ago: Post #253 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-332 For earlier responses to release of DSM-5 see Posts #252 … more →
DSM-5; step into the straight-jacket...
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wrote 1 month ago: It is out today. Back in February, I wrote a long piece reflecting on a number of issues thro … more →
The medicalisation of childhood: Time for a paradigm shift: BPS Manchester event
wrote 1 month ago: Post #251 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-327 British Psychological Society (BPS) Division of Educati … more →
Surface Appearances - DSM-V: Small Changes, Unintended Consequences?
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wrote 1 month ago: What had struck me was the neat appearance of the guillotine; its shining surfaces and finish remind … more →
The medicalisation of childhood: Time for a paradigm shift: BPS House of Commons event
wrote 1 month ago: Post #250 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-31Q British Psychological Society (BPS) Division of Educatio … more →
Let’s Fight Big Pharma’s Crusade to Turn Eccentricity Into Illness
wrote 1 month ago: Editor’s Note: The controversial fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Di … more →
Infighting, boycotts, resignations: Psychiatry faces another crisis of confidence
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wrote 1 month ago: In the early 1970s, psychologist David Rosenhan set out to answer a simple question: Can psychiatris … more →
Allen Frances on "The International Reaction to DSM-5"
wrote 1 month ago: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/reaction-to-dsm-5_b_3146659.html “People living in … more →
