Links to posts in reverse date order back to December 22, 2009

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• Update on ICD-11 Beta drafting: Bodily Distress Disorder: emerging proposals: Part One
• Bodily Distress Syndrome: Coming soon to a GP Management Pilot near you…
• Psychologists’ perspectives on the diagnostic classification of mental disorders: Results from the WHO-IUPsyS Global Survey
• DSM-5 released: professional and campaigning reaction: Round up #7
• Somatic Symptom Disorder in recent journal papers
• Karina Hansen initiatives: A clarification
• New Danish and German guidelines for “Bodily distress” and functional disorders published
• Menneskerettighederne nægtet: Noget råddent i staten Danmark: Karina Hansen: Opdater 1
• Human Rights denied: Something rotten in the state of Denmark: Update 1
• DSM-5 released: Media, professional and advocacy reaction: Round up #6
• DSM-5 released: Media, professional and advocacy reaction: Round up #5
• DSM-5 released: Media, professional and advocacy reaction: Round up #4
• DSM-5 released: Media, professional and advocacy reaction: Round up #3
• DSM-5 released: Media, professional and advocacy reaction: Round up #2
• DSM-5 released: Media, professional and advocacy reaction: Round up #1
• The medicalisation of childhood: Time for a paradigm shift: BPS Manchester event
• The medicalisation of childhood: Time for a paradigm shift: BPS House of Commons event
• APA to release DSM-5 at Annual Meeting (May 18-22): What next?
• NIMH Director issues joint statement with APA President-elect on DSM’s validity as diagnostic tool
• Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) calls for paradigm shift away from ‘disease model’
• Something rotten in the state of Denmark: Karina Hansen’s story
• DSM-5 Round up: May #1
• Somatic Symptom Disorder paper in Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
• International media Round up #1: National Institute of Mental Health to re-orientate research away from DSM categories
• Kupfer (APA) statement on National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) announcement
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to ditch the DSM
• DSM-5 Round up: April #3
• ICD-11 Round up: April #1
• ‘Somatic Symptom Disorder’ in Current Biology, 22 April, 2013
• Three BMJ letters published in response to Somatic Symptom Disorder commentary
• Site design in transition
• DSM-5 publication date May 22: American Psychiatric Association to release DSM-5 between May 18-22, San Francisco
• Many faces of somatic symptom disorders, International Review of Psychiatry
• ‘Somatic Symptom Disorders in DSM-5: A step forward or a fall back?’ Eleanor Stein MD FRCP(C)
• DSM-5 Round up: April #2
• DSM-5 Round up: April #1
• Rapid Responses to BMJ DSM-5 ‘Somatic Symptom Disorder’ opposition piece
• ‘Somatic Symptom Disorder’ – the most ubiquitous mental health diagnosis you never heard of
• DSM-5 Round up: March #1
• APA website: New documents and videos on ‘Somatic Symptom Disorder; article: Psychiatric News
• DSM-5 and ICD-10-CM Round up: February #3
• DSM-5 Round up: February #2
• DSM-5 Round up: February #1
• DSM-5 goes to press with ‘Somatic Symptom Disorder’ amid widespread professional and consumer concern
• Deutschlandfunk Radio: Wissenschaft Im Brennpunkt: Störungswahn? DSM-5 with Allen Frances
• ICD-11 Beta draft and Bodily Distress Disorders; Per Fink and Bodily Distress Syndrome: Parts One and Two
• Brief update on DSM-5 ‘Somatic Symptom Disorder’
• American Psychiatric Association launches new pages for DSM-5 – DSM-5 to cost $199
• DSM-5 Round up: January #2
• DSM-5 rejects call for urgent reconsideration of new “Somatic Symptom Disorder” category
• Update on ICD-11 Beta draft: Bodily Distress Disorder
• DSM-5 Round up: January #1
• 11th hour call: “Mislabeling Medical Illness As Mental Disorder” by Allen J. Frances, MD.
• Bloomberg: How Many Billions a Year Will the DSM-5 Cost? Allen Frances, MD
• One Last Chance For APA To Make DSM 5 Safer: Allen Frances, M.D.
• Mislabeling Medical Illness As Mental Disorder: The Eleventh DSM 5 Mistake: Allen Frances, MD
• Media coverage: APA Board of Trustees approves DSM-5 diagnostic criteria
• American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustees approves final DSM-5 diagnostic criteria
• Flyer: DSM-5 Core titles from American Psychiatric Publishing
• Selling Sickness 2013: People Before Profits: February 20-22, Washington D.C.
• American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting: May 18-22, 2013, San Francisco
• Important changes to DSM-5 Development website: Draft proposals and criteria removed
• DSM-5 Round up: November #1
• APA finally posts DSM-5 Field Trials online and DSM-5 Round up
• Summary: September 19 ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting
• Proposals: September 19 ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting
• Response to Recommendations from November 2011 CFSAC meeting
• HHS announces Final Rule on ICD-10-CM compliance date
• Notice of Meeting of the ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee
• Trouble with timelines (2) Might APA hold back DSM-5 in response to an October 2014 ICD-10-CM compliance date?
• New domain for Dx Revision Watch and new Twitter address
• Trouble with timelines (1) DSM-5, ICD-10-CM, ICD-11 and ICD-11-CM
• Slide presentation: Per Fink: Somatoform disorders – functional somatic syndromes – Bodily distress syndrome (EACLPP lecture, June 2012)
• Proposed new diagnoses of anxious depression and bodily stress syndrome in ICD-11-PHC: an international focus group study
• Round up: ICD11-PHC, ICD-11 Classification of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Monograph: Public Health Aspects of Diagnosis and Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders, ASHA DSM-5 comments
• ICD-11 Revision Beta drafting process: stakeholder participation
• ICD-11 Beta drafting platform: Update (2)
• WordPress glitch when viewed in Internet Explorer IE8 and IE9
• Two resign from DSM-5 Personality Disorders Work Group over “seriously flawed” proposals
• Changes to ICD-11 Beta drafting platform: Bodily Distress Disorders (1)
• Changes to content on DSM-5 Development site (1)
• NAPPP launches Petition to Endorse ICD-10-CM for Diagnosis of Mental Disorders
• DSM-5 draft criteria draws nearly 2,300 responses in final public comment period
• My Debate With The DSM 5 Chair: More Translations From ‘Newspeak’ by Allen Frances
• Three professional organization responses to third and final DSM-5 stakeholder review
• APA closes third and final comment period: fails to publish field trial results
• Final day: Submissions to third DSM-5 stakeholder review
• Patient submissions to third and final DSM-5 stakeholder review
• Final 2 days: Submissions to third DSM-5 stakeholder review
• National ME/FM Action Network (Canada) submission to DSM-5 third draft
• Action for M.E. submission to third and final DSM-5 public review (closes June 15)
• DSM-5 controversy: Lane on “SAD”, Frances Follows the Money, Spitzer et al on Kappa reliability
• Allen Frances: “Follow the Money”
• DSM-5 round-up: Lane on “DSM-5 Facts” site, Frances on DSM-5, Kupfer on Frances
• Welcome to DSM-5 Facts (The APA’s new PR site)
• American Psychiatric Association (APA) Assembly Notes and Full Treasurer’s Report
• Call to action – DSM-5 comments needed by June 15, 2012
• Somatic Symptom Disorder could capture millions more under mental health diagnosis
• DSM-5 in New Scientist: Psychiatry’s new diagnostic bible is creating headaches for doctors and patients alike
• WHO releases ICD-11 Beta drafting platform
• Two proposed changes dropped from DSM-5: Media round-up
• DSM-5 Somatic Symptom Disorders: Differences between second and third draft for CSSD
• More Kappa data from DSM-5 field trials
• Make Yourself Heard! says DSM-5′s Kupfer – but are they listening?
• DSM-5 Somatic Symptoms Work Group submissions 2012: Last chance to tell SSD Work Group why it needs to ditch flawed, unsafe and unscientific proposals
• APA Press Release: DSM-5 Draft Criteria Open for Public Comment
• The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue: conceptual and definitional issues in psychiatric diagnosis Parts 1 and 2
• CFSAC announces dates of Spring meeting
• Reminder: Comment period on ICD-10-CM proposed delay ends May 17
• What’s new in the ICD-11 Alpha drafting platform? (CFS, PVFS, ME)
• HHS proposes one year delay for ICD-10-CM compliance
• Update on timelines: DSM-5, ICD-11, ICD-10-CM
• Conflicts of interest and DSM-5: the media reaction; APA Rebuts Study on Autism and Christopher Lane On What’s Wrong With Modern Psychiatry
• CMS expected to announce proposal for new ICD-10 implementation date sometime in April
• DSM-5 controversies, Cosgrove-Krimsky on potential COIs, counter statement from APA’s John Oldham and APA May Annual Meeting preliminary program
• Cosgrove, Sheldon: 69% of DSM-5 task force members report pharmaceutical industry ties
• Part Two: William Heisel: Slap: American Psychiatric Association Targets One DSM5 Critic, Ignores Others
• William Heisel’s Antidote: Slap: American Psychiatric Association Pressures Brit DSM5 Blogger Suzy Chapman
• New Scientist, Prospect magazine and Allen Frances asks: Is Government Intervention Needed to Prevent an Unsafe DSM 5?
• AHIMA: Ten Reasons to Not Delay ICD-10 (ICD-10-CM)
• Round-up: Recent commentaries by Allen Frances, MD, on a DSM-5 in distress
• “Bodily Distress Disorders” to replace “Somatoform Disorders” for ICD-11?
• Round-up: media coverage following Lancet’s criticism of DSM-5 proposals for grief
• Criticism of DSM-5 proposals for grief in this week’s Lancet: Editorial and Essay
• HHS Secretary Sebelius announces intent to delay ICD-10-CM compliance date
• Science Media Centre DSM-5 press briefing: Comments from research and clinical professionals
• Practice Central on ICD-10-CM transition; APA Monitor and WHO Reed on ICD-11
• ICD-11 Beta drafting platform for release in May 2012
• Media coverage of UK concerns over DSM-5
• APA “Monitor” articles: ICD-11 and DSM-5; Frances, Rajiv Tandon on DSM-5; iCAT Analytics
• The Trouble with Timelines: DSM-5 round up
• American Psychiatric Association rejects call for independent review of DSM-5 proposals
• Timeline revised but no firm date for DSM-5 third and final stakeholder review and comment period
• DSM-5 media round up: Grief, autism spectrum disorder, Paraphilias Sub workgroup, medical ethics
• DSM 5 and Diagnostic Inflation: Reply To Misleading Comments From Task Force: Allen Frances
• Preventive Psychiatry Can Be Bad for Our Health: Allen Frances on Huffington Post #2
• Two commentaries from Allen Frances in response to APA field trial documents
• CFSAC November 8-9, 2011 meeting: Minutes and Recommendations to HHS posted
• New DSM-5 Development docs: Reliability and Prevalence in the DSM-5 Field Trials
• DSM 5 Censorship Fails: Support From Professionals and Patients Saves Free Speech: Allen Frances
• Psychologists call for independent review of DSM-5
• America Is Over Diagnosed and Over Medicated: Allen Frances on Huffington Post
• Pity the poor American Psychiatric Association, Parts 1 and 2: Gary Greenberg
• Resources and media coverage: American Psychiatric Association “cease and desist” v DSM-5 Watch website
• Psychiatric creep – Erasing the interface between psychiatry and medicine
• Is DSM 5 A Public Trust Or An APA Cash Cow? Commercialism And Censorship Trump Concern For Quality by Allen Frances
• DSM 5 Disorganization, Disarray, and Missed Deadlines Allen Frances, Psychology Today
• When is the third stakeholder and public review of draft categories and criteria for DSM-5 scheduled?
• CFSAC November 2011 meeting: videos, presentations and coding of CFS in ICD-10-CM
• Psychiatric Times Editor invites readership to submit views on DSM-5 for potential publication
• British Psychological Society issues statement in response to DSM-5 encouraging members to sign Coalition for DSM-5 Reform petition
• Psychiatric Manual Revision Pushes Ahead Amid Continued Concerns (APA issues update on status of DSM-5)
• American Psychiatric Association responds to letter from American Counseling Association
• American Counseling Association releases letter: Calls for external review of DSM-5
• Coalition for DSM-5 Reform: Petition Update 1
• CFSAC November Meeting Agenda and Call-in Information
• DSM-5 Task Force Ponders Round 2 of Public Feedback: Deborah Brauser for Medscape Medical News
• Coalition 4 ME/CFS – Letter to the Medical Community
• Media coverage: Open Letter and Petition to DSM-5 Task Force by Society for Humanistic Psychology
• Open Letter and Petition to DSM-5 Task Force by Society for Humanistic Psychology (Division 32 of the American Psychological Association)
• New: Online ICD-10 Version for 2010
• Medical Classification WHO ICD codes by Mary Schweitzer
• Extracts: ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting Summary document (CFS coding)
• Extracts: ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting September 14, 2011 (Coding of CFS in ICD-10-CM)
• Coding CFS in ICD-10-CM: CFSAC and the Coalition4ME/CFS initiative
• Next CFSAC meeting, Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 November (US)
• Minutes of May 10-11 2011 CFSAC meeting (Discussion of coding of CFS for ICD-10-CM)
• Position statement on proposed coding of CFS in ICD-10-CM
• Important notice from DSM-5 Development website (further extension to comment period)
• Three days left before the second DSM-5 stakeholder review period closes
• Update on ICD-11 development: July 3, 2011
• Minutes: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee (CFSAC) Spring meeting: May 10 – 11
• The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? and The Illusions of Psychiatry, New York Review of Books
• DSM-5 Web Site Period for Comments has Been Extended to July 15
• ME Association submission to the consultation on the revision of the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
• European ME Alliance (EMEA) submission to DSM-5 draft proposals Submission
• Final push: We have till Wednesday to submit comments on the DSM-5 draft criteria
• IACFS/ ME Statement on DSM-5 Somatic Symptom Disorder
• Coalition4ME/CFS issues Call to Action on DSM-5 proposals
• Action for M.E. publish news item on DSM-5
• Final Call for Action by UK patient orgs – Second DSM-5 public comment period closes 15 June
• Submissions to the first DSM-5 stakeholder review (February to 20 April 2010)
• Index: Recent posts around DSM-5 second public review
• Call for Action – Second DSM-5 public comment period closes June 15
• What are the latest proposals for DSM-5 “Somatic Symptom Disorders” categories and why are they problematic? (Part 4)
• ICD-11 Alpha Drafting platform launched 17 May (public version)
• What are the latest proposals for DSM-5 “Somatic Symptom Disorders” categories and why are they problematic? (Part 3)
• ICD Revision: WHO announces revised Timeline for ICD-11
• Registering to submit comment in the second DSM-5 public review of draft criteria
• What are the latest proposals for DSM-5 “Somatic Symptom Disorders” categories and why are they problematic? (Part 2)
• Live streaming of CFSAC Meeting (US) today, 10-11 May
• What are the latest proposals for DSM-5 “Somatic Symptom Disorders” and why are they problematic? (Part 1)
• APA News Release 4 May 2011: New Framework Proposed for Manual of Mental Disorders
• APA announces second public review of DSM-5 draft criteria and structure
• CFSAC Spring 2011 Meeting Agenda (May 10-11)
• ICD Revision Process Alpha Evaluation Meeting presentations
• ICD Revision Process Alpha Evaluation Meeting 11-14 April: The Way Forward?
• ICD-11 struggling to meet targets for release of Beta Draft in May
• Online Version of ICD-10 for 2011?
• ICD-10 coding error in Hansard
• Next meeting of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee (CFSAC) (US)
• ICD-11 Training videos, transcripts and Key Revision documentation
• APA postpones release of revised proposals for draft criteria for DSM-5 by three months
• Ian Swales, MP amends his report on gov policy on CFS and ME (Three Parliamentary errors)
• ICD-11 Content Model Reference Guide: version for December 2010
• Erasing the interface between psychiatry and medicine (DSM-5)
• CFS orphaned in the “R” codes in ICD-10-CM
• The clock is ticking for CFS: Partial Code Freeze for ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS Finalized
• Washington Examiner: Corrupting Psychiatry by Max Borders
• DSM-5: New category proposal “Simple Somatic Symptom Disorder”
• Revisions to DSM-5 proposals on 14.01.11: New category proposed “Simple Somatic Symptom Disorder”
• Wired magazine: Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness, Gary Greenberg
• Allen Frances and Robert Spitzer on DSM-5 Scientific Review Work Group and DSM-5 Field Trials and deadlines
• No publication of an ICD-11 Alpha Draft for public scrutiny
• The Development, Evolution, and Modifications of ICD-10: Challenges to the International Comparability of Morbidity Data
• Web Protégé: Supporting the Creation of ICD-11 and iCAMP2 YouTubes
• APA Announces Start of Field Trials for DSM-5; MedPage Today commentary
• ICD-11 revision: where are we now? Ontology-driven tools and the web platform: Meeting abstract
• iCamp2 meeting and status of ICD-11 Alpha Draft
• Update on the ICD-11 Alpha Draft 06.09.10
• PVFS, ME, CFS: the ICD-11 Alpha Draft and iCAT Collaborative Authoring Platform
• US “Clinical Modification” ICD-10-CM
• New WHO YouTube videos: ICD-11 and ICTM
• Revision of DSM-5 and ICD-10-CM raised at 10 May CFSAC meeting
• ICD-11 Alpha Draft scheduled to launch between 10 and 17 May
• Whittemore Peterson Institute submission to DSM-5 draft proposals
• News release: APA Closes Public Comment Period for Draft Diagnostic Criteria for DSM-5
• CFS Associazione Italiana submission to DSM-5 public review process
• Submissions in response to DSM-5 draft criteria from Suzy Chapman
• ME Association endorsed submission to DSM-5 draft criteria
• Action for M.E. submission to DSM-5 public review process
• Submission to DSM-5 draft proposals from Invest in ME
• Comments on DSM-5 proposals from the Massachusetts CFIDS/ME and FM Association
• Letter to the APA on Complex Somatic Symptom Disorder (CSSD) by Mary Schweitzer
• Psychology Today: Allen Frances MD on DSM-5 and comment
• CFIDS Association of America: Submission for DSM-5 public review process
• Vermont CFIDS Association: Submission for DSM-5 public review process
• US, UK and international patient organisation submissions to DSM-5 draft proposals
• Notice from IACFSME: DSM-5 May Include CFS as a Psychiatric Diagnosis
• New papers: Journal of Psychosomatic Research March 10 edition and In Press
• ICD Revision: TAG Neurology and TAG Mental Health members
• Feedback invited on DSM-5 draft criteria
• APA News Release: 09 March 10: APA Modifies DSM Naming Convention to Reflect Publication Changes
• CFIDS Association calls for expert input for DSM-5 submission
• Submissions in response to proposals by the DSM-5 Work Group for Somatic Symptom Disorders
• Submitting comments in the DSM-5 Draft Proposal review process
• Two key DSM-5 draft proposal documents (Somatic Symptom Disorders)
• DSM-5 Psychiatric/General Medical Interface Study Group
• DSM-5 Development Timeline
• APA publishes proposed revisions and draft criteria for DSM-5 categories
• DSM-5 in the media and reminder
• ICD on YouTube: ICD-11 ICF ICD ICAMP January 2010
• DSM-5 Draft Criteria Available for Public Comment through April 20
• WHO iCAMP ICD-ICF Linkages Meeting: New documents on ICD-11 Revision site
• ICD-11 and DSM-V focussed editorials and articles in Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, Jan 10
• Three American Psychiatric Association (APA) DSM related pieces
• APA reschedules publication of DSM-5 draft proposals for diagnostic criteria
• APM Workshop: DSM-V for Psychosomatic Medicine: Current Progress and Controversies
• APA confirms publication date for draft proposals for DSM-5 diagnostic criteria
• Allen Frances; John Grohol on DSM-V revision process
• Christopher Lane on DSM revision and New Scientist article
• DSM-5: Revision controversies in New Scientist 09.12.09
• APA announces revised timeline for publication of DSM-5
• Monitoring the progress of the DSM and ICD revision processes
• Dx Revision Watch