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