“Why it’s Truly Bonkers to Believe in Shrinks”
The U.K.'s Daily Mail reviews "Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good" by James Davies.
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“Science Isn’t Golden”
Paula Caplan's Psychology Today blog on the "existential nausea" associated with seeing the recent controversy over the DSM and psychiatric diagnosis. This is a...
“Are Mental Illnesses Such as PMS and Depression Culturally Determined?”
Britain's Guardian discovers, in light of the DSM controversy, that a "growing number of psychiatrists suspect mental conditions are 'culture-bound syndromes' rather than exclusively...
“Closed Thinking: Without Scientific Competition and Open Debate, Much Psychology Research Goes Nowhere”
Science News offers an excellent review of the the perils and pitfalls of the scientific method as it is practiced in psychology today, concluding...
“Temple Grandin on DSM-5: ‘Sounds Like Diagnosis by Committee'”
Salon publishes and excerpt from Temple Grandin's "The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum", saying it "anticipated much of the thinking in the new...
DSM — the Latest News and Happenings… Collected
Monica Cassani promises to add to Beyond Meds' chronicle, today and for the next week or so, of emerging coverage on the DSM rollout....
“To CDC on Children’s Mental Health: Consider Office of Homeland Attachment Security”
Claudia Gold writes in the Boston Globe, "The time has come to recognize the overwhelming evidence regarding the importance of early relationships in healthy...
“Mental Distress Is Not An Illness”
Philip Hickey, PhD, of the valuable blog Behaviorism and Mental Health, explicates the fuzzy distinction between "disorder" and "illness" when it comes to mental health,...
“There Was a Time – it Was a Long Time ago, Maybe 40 Years...
For consistently trenchant analysis of the DSM controversy, visit 1 Boring Old Man. Among many posts this weekend, he eulogizes his early career as...
“The Inmates Seem to Have Taken Over the Asylum”
Allen Frances writes, in the Huffington Post, a "plea to the American Psychiatric Association, to the National Institute of Mental Health, and to the...
“Do we Need to Change the way we Are Thinking About Mental Illness?”
Britain's Guardian offers "experts on both sides of the debate over the classification of mental disorders" an opportunity to make their case.
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“Shortcomings of a Psychiatric Bible”
The Editorial Board of the New York Times writes "Patients and parents concerned about mental illness have every right to be confused. The head...
‘Why the Fuss Over the D.S.M.-5?”
Sally Satel, a prominent psychiatrist and co-author of the forthcoming book “Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience" writes in the New York Times...
“Lost in Medication”
Psychiatrist Sarah Mourra writes, in The Atlantic; "This isn't to say that people don't need to be on medication -- but this psychopharmacological myopia...
NIMH vs DSM-5: No One Wins, Patients Lose
Allen Frances writes in the Huffington Post that "DSM-5 certainly deserves rejecting. It offers a reckless hodgepodge of new diagnoses that will misidentify normals...
“The DSM is not Being Abandoned — Psychiatry is Finally Growing up”
Forbes magazine finds that the change in the NIMH's relationship with the DSM is "not so much that studies that use the DSM-5 will...
“Dr. Insel’s Blog is not big News… It’s an Affirmation of Something That has...
1 Boring Old Man incisively analyzes NIMH director Thomas Insel's disavowal of the DSM, saying "it’s not likely to be a shock to the...
“Bipolar Writer Comments on Debate Over ‘Crisis in Psychiatry'”
John Horgan, who announced that The NIMH's move away from the DSM was "a move sure to rock psychiatry, psychology and other fields that...
“Psychiatry’s Guide Is Out of Touch With Science, Experts Say”
"Just weeks before the long-awaited publication of a new edition of the so-called bible of mental disorders, the federal government’s most prominent psychiatric expert...
“Mental Illness Still Hurts, no Matter What you Call it”
"(Director of the NIMH Thomas Insel's) announcement is nothing short of a cataclysm in mental health. Imagine that you have a child who's been...
“The NIMH Withdraws Support for DSM-5”
From Psychology Today blogger Christopher Lane: "Just two weeks before DSM-5 is due to appear, the National Institute of Mental Health, the world's largest...
Psychiatry in Crisis! Mental Health Director Rejects Psychiatric ‘Bible’ and Replaces With… Nothing
John Horgan of Scientific American writes that "in a move sure to rock psychiatry, psychology and other fields that address mental illness, the director...
“Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin.”
A previously "solicitous and loving" young undergoes "a classic onset of schizophrenia", followed by "a changing regimen of antidepressants." He is now in jail...
“Harvard Student’s Suicide as a Case Study”
The case of a Harvard student who was diagnosed as ADHD and prescribed Adderall based on cursory information collected by a nurse, then committed...
“Psychosis, healing and rebirth”
Our friend Monica Cassani muses "Psychosis is, among (many) other things, also, quite often, a deep attachment to one’s (not consensually reasonable) thoughts and...
