DSM-5 Round up: April #3
April 27, 2013
Post #240 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-2T2
“…Psychiatry has already reached far into our daily lives, and it’s not by virtue of the particulars of any given D.S.M. It’s because the A.P.A., a private guild, one with extensive ties to the drug industry, owns the naming rights to our pain. That so significant a public trust is in private hands, and on such questionable grounds, is what we ought to worry about.”
The New Yorker, April 9, 2013
Gary Greenberg is a Connecticut psychotherapist, author of four books and cultivator of an impressive braid.
Greenberg’s new book The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry on the politics and controversies surrounding the making of DSM is published by Blue Rider Press on May 2. Read an excerpt here.
Extracts from “Manufacturing Depression” (Harpers, May 2007), essays, articles and other writings can be read here. Media interviews and podcasts here.
Gary Greenberg blogs here.
Interview with Gary Greenberg:
The Atlantic
The Real Problems With Psychiatry
A psychotherapist contends that the DSM, psychiatry’s “bible” that defines all mental illness, is not scientific but a product of unscrupulous politics and bureaucracy.
“…take the damn thing away from them.”
Hope Reese | May 2, 2013
DSM-5 Media Round up: April #3
Nature | News Feature
Nature Volume: 496, Pages: 416–418 Date published: (25 April 2013) DOI:doi:10.1038/496416a
Mental health: On the spectrum
Research suggests that mental illnesses lie along a spectrum — but the field’s latest diagnostic manual still splits them apart.
David Adam | April 24, 2013
p. 397 Editorial
Globe and Mail (Canada)
When did life itself become a treatable mental disorder?
Patricia Pearson | Special to The Globe and Mail | April 27, 2013
Medpage Today
New DSM Faulted for Ignoring Social Issues
John Gever, Deputy Managing Editor, MedPage Today | April 25, 2013
Primary source: Health Affairs
Source reference:
Hansen H, et al “Independent Review Of Social And Population Variation In Mental Health Could Improve Diagnosis In DSM Revisions” Health Affairs 2013; doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0596.
Plos Open Access
Perspective doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001544
Subgrouping the Autism “Spectrum”: Reflections on DSM-5
Meng-Chuan Lai, Michael V. Lombardo, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Simon Baron-Cohen
Monitor on Psychology (Organ of the American Psychological Association)
A look at the major revisions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, due out next month.
Rebecca A Clay | April 2013
Psychology Today
Saving Normal
The International Reaction to DSM-5
Allen Frances, MD | April 23, 2013
For WPA/WHO survey of global usage of ICD-10 v DSM-5 see Presentation slides: Slides 17 and 18:
Revising the ICD Definition of Intellectual Disability: Implications and Recommendations March 19, 2013
Data from World Psychiatry. 2011 Jun;10(2):118-31.
The WPA-WHO Global Survey of Psychiatrists’ Attitudes Towards Mental Disorders Classification.
Reed GM, Mendonça Correia J, Esparza P, Saxena S, Maj M. Free full paper
Slide presentation David J Kupfer
Psychiatry Update – American College of Physicians | March 2, 2013
www.acponline.org/about_acp/chapters/va/13mtg/kupfer_psychiatryupdate.pptx
File Format: Microsoft Powerpoint .pptx
(Emerging options for DSM-5 Primary Care Version from Slide 18)
Psychiatric News | April 19, 2013
Volume 48 Number 8 page 5-5
10.1176/appi.pn.2013.4b14
American Psychiatric Association
Professional News
Gambling Disorder to Be Included in Addictions Chapter
Mark Moran | April 19, 2013
Full paper PDF:
www.luc.edu/law/media/law/students/publications/llj/pdfs/hass.pdf
Could the American Psychiatric Association Cause You Headaches? The Dangerous Interaction between the DSM-5 and Employment Law
Douglas A. Hass | March 9, 2013
Scientific American
New DSM-5 Ignores Biology of Mental Illness
The latest edition of psychiatry’s standard guidebook neglects the biology of mental illness. New research may change that
Ferris Jabr | April 2013
UK Times
First, the good news: you’re not having a nervous breakdown
John Naish | April 16, 2013
Behind a paywall
Phil Hickey Blog
Somatic Symptom Disorder in DSM-5: You’re Crazy to Worry about Your Health
Phil Hickey | April 9, 2013