DSM
Psychiatry’s Bible Under Attack
USA Today Books blast new version of psychiatry’s bible, the DSM by Sharon Jayson May 12, 2013 Critics take aim at changes envisioned for psychiatry’s bible, the DSM. Psychiatry’s battle-scarred bible of mental disorders — known as the DSM — continues to face a barrage of criticism even as the latest version (DSM-5) is just [...]
Psychiatry’s bible, the DSM, is doing more harm than good
Washington Post By Paula J. Caplan April 27, 2012 About a year ago, a young mother called me, extremely distressed. She had become seriously sleep-deprived while working full-time and caring for her dying grandmother every night. When a crisis at her son’s day-care center forced her to scramble to find a new child-care arrangement, her [...]
Therapists revolt against psychiatry’s bible
Salon.com Mental health professionals say new diagnoses will lead to overmedication Dec 27, 2011 By Rob Waters Anyone who’s ever tried to get reimbursed by a health insurance company after seeing a psychiatrist or psychotherapist, or taking a child or teenager to one, has no doubt noticed the incomprehensible numbers that appear on the clinician’s [...]
Diagnostic & Statistical Manual
Diagnostic & Statistical Manual
Expert warns of revisions to psychiatric \’bible\’ DSM
National Post By Sharon Kirkey As Dr. Allen Frances read through the list of proposed changes to psychiatry\’s bible of mental sickness, alarms started ringing in his own mind. \”I was surprised,\” the renowned U.S. psychiatrist says, \”that the proposals managed to be much worse than my most pessimistic expectations.\” By the time he was [...]