Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes Divorce: Psychiatry & Scientology Face Off?

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The competing rubrics of Scientology and Psychiatry, as seen in the context of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' divorce, gets a hearing on Fox...

British Psychological Society Critiques the DSM-5

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The British Psychological Society has "serious concerns about many aspects of the framework. In our response we have argued that the categorical framework of...

The Psychopathology of American Life

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‘I’m severely depressed.’ These were the words that Donesha*, a 35 year-old African American woman repeatedly uttered to me.

Anxiety Accounts for Bipolar False Positives

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Researchers found that of 1,534 patients assessed at Australia's Black Dog Institute Depression clinic, a significant number received a false positive diagnosis of bipolar...

Over 1/2 of Autistic Children take Psychotropics

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"... Absence of clear practice guidelines for psychotropic medication use in children with ASD" leads to a range of drugs for depression, anxiety, psychosis...

Psychotropic Drugs and Children

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video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Psychotropic Drugs and Children June 15, 2010 Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic, discusses the disturbing effects of psychotropic drugs...

APA President-Elect Responds to DSM Criticism on Fox News

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Dr. Keith Ablow, a former APA member who resigned "in protest," criticized the DSM on FoxNews.com last week. Dr. Joseph Lieberman, president-elect of the...

Scientific American Reviews the DSM

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In a continuing series, Scientific American analyzes the "Trouble at the Heart of Psychiatry's Revised Rule Book." Article →  Part 1: Psychiatrists Are About to Shift...

“How One Flawed Study Spawned a Decade of Lies”

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Forbes magazine dives into the controversy swirling around former DSM task force chairman Robert Spitzer, and his recanted study of "reparative therapy," with an...

“Father of Modern Psychiatry” Feels He Owes An Apology

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Robert Spitzer, chair of the DSM-III task force and referred to as "the father of modern psychiatry" in a front-page story on the New...

Former APA Member Protests the DSM on Fox News

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Dr. Keith Ablow, who resigned from the APA in protest "some time ago," criticizes the unscientific and arbitrary process by which diagnoses are generated...

Generalized Anxiety Disorder Does Not Meet Criteria for a Disorder

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Researchers in Italy found that of 105 subjects who met criteria for the DSM diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), only 18 had no...

Does Everyone Have a Mental Illness?

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Psychiatrist and author Allen J. Frances, former chair of the DSM-IV task force, outlines why he thinks the DSM-V will lead to millions of...

Former DSM Chair: DSM-5 “A Disaster,” Calls for APA Monopoly to End

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Former DSM task force chairman Allen Frances reviews the rise of the DSM, crossing over from a research instrument to to a popular bestseller...

Laura Delano, David Oaks, Ted Chabasinski and Adina Lambert in Philadelpha

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Laura Delano at Occupy the American Psychiatric Association, May 5, 2012, in Philadelphia David Oaks at Occupy the American Psychiatric Association, May 5, 2012 Ted Chabasinski...

Imagining A Different Future in Mental Health

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Robert Whitaker speaks about how the data shows we could have far better outcomes for people diagnosed with mental illness by going to a selective...

Call For DSM-5 Reform Continues

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Over 13,000 mental health professionals have signed an open letter from The Society for Humanistic Psychology (Div. 32 of the APA) to the DSM-5...

DSM-5 Field Trials Fail to Compare New Diagnostic Criteria with DSM-IV Criteria

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Field trials for the DSM-5 fail to explicitly compare new proposed diagnostic criteria with those in the DSM-IV, a step that would be too...

Weak Field Trials Scuttle DSM-5 Diagnoses

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"Mixed anxiety-depressive disorder," "attenuated psychosis syndrome," "obsessive-compulsive personality disorder," "antisocial personality disorder," and "nonsuicidal self-injury" were among diagnoses that met with disappointing results in...

DSM-5 Retreats from Some Controversial Diagnoses

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The APA DSM-5 Development website announced today that "Psychosis Risk" and "Mixed Anxiety Depression" will not be included in the DSM-5 (apart from recommendations...

Ethics Complaints Over DSM Filed With the APA

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Paula Caplan writes in Psychology Today about ethics complaints which have been filed with the APA (including one by her as an "interested party")...

Review of the Evidence: Childhood Adversity High in Schizophrenia and Other Disorders

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Researchers from Australia and the UK found that people with a schizophrenia diagnosis almost four times more likely than controls to have a history of...

Overlap Between Borderline and Bipolar

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Researchers in Australia investigate the growing evidence that childhood trauma predisposes individuals to both bipolar and borderline syndromes, with the intention of examining areas...

An Opportunity to Walk the Talk — Occupy the American Psychiatric Association May 5th...

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On May 5, 2012,  MindFreedom International is holding its Occupy the American Psychiatric Association protest at the APA's annual convention in Philadelphia.  Momentum is building for the...

Illinois Rep. Calls for Task Force to Investigate “False Epidemics” and Psychotropic Drugs

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Rep. Mary Flowers (D-Chicago) has introduced a resolution to the Illinois House of Representatives calling for a 'Task Force on Mental Diagnosis and Illinois...