DSM-5 Round up: February #1
February 11, 2013
DSM-5 Round up: February #1
Post #225 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-2F7
Update: More recent coverage:
The first in a series of three commentaries by Allen Frances, MD, on the Somatic Symptoms Disorder issue has received over 25,000 page views on Psychology Today, alone. It was also published at Huffington Post and on “Education Update,” and now also at Psychiatric Times.
Mislabeling Medical Illness As Mental Disorder
Allen Frances, MD | February 13, 2013
Fox Health News
A psychiatrist’s take on the DSM-5 Somatic Symptom Disorder diagnosis, Dr Keith Ablow, for Fox News Health:
Does somatic symptom disorder really exist?
Keith Ablow, MD | for Fox News Health | February 14, 2013
Currents An interactive newsletter of NASW-WA
(Washington State Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers is a membership organization.)
DSM 5 Changes
DSM-5: A Summary of Proposed Changes
Carlton E. Munson, PhD, LCSW-C | February 12, 2013
The Health Care Blog
Allen Frances, MD | February 12, 2013
Huffington Post Blogger
Bruce E. Levine
Practicing clinical psychologist, writerBruce E. Levine | February 10, 2013
Earlier coverage:
Huffington Post
Bruce E. Levine | February 10, 2013
Practicing clinical psychologist, writer
DIE WELT/Worldcrunch All news is global
Translated (and possibly abridged) from original article in German
Worldcrunch All news is global
Psychiatrists Not Crazy About The Revised Manual Of Mental Disorders
Fanny Jiménez and Christiane Löll | February 5, 2013
Allen Frances, MD, now blogs at Saving Normal.
Archive posts at DSM 5 in Distress will remain accessible and open for new comments.
Saving Normal
Mental health and what is normal.
by Allen Frances, M.D.DSM 5 Boycotts and Petitions
Too many, too sectarianAllen Frances, MD | February 8, 2013
There are already about a dozen different DSM 5 petitions and boycotts out there. This is completely understandable – there is lots in DSM 5 to be angry at or frightened about.
Unfortunately, though, this is not a case of more the merrier. Fragmentation into a number of small protests will greatly reduce their aggregate impact…
David J. Kupfer, MD, chairs the DSM-5 Task Force. On February 8, Dr Kupfer published in defence of the SSD construct on Huffington Post. Part Three in the Allen Frances and Suzy Chapman series of commentaries on the SSD criteria was published earlier, last week, Saving Normal on Psychology Today:
Huffington Post
David J. Kupfer, M.D.
Chair, DSM-5 Task ForceSomatic Symptoms Criteria in DSM-5 Improve Diagnosis, Care
David J. Kupfer, MD | February 8, 2013
While the goal of the upcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is clear, accurate criteria for diagnosing mental disorders, the motivation behind the book’s revision was the improvement of diagnosis and clinical care. Somatoform disorders are one area where definitive progress was made.
Somatoform disorders are characterized by symptoms suggesting physical illness or injury, but which may not be fully explained by a general medical condition, another mental disorder, or by medication or substance side effects. The symptoms are either very distressing or result in significant disruption of an individual’s ability to function in daily life. People suffering from somatoform disorders are often initially seen in general medical settings as opposed to psychiatric settings…
This new post from Christopher Lane on the DSM-5 ‘Somatic Symptom Disorder’ controversy has been designated a Psychology Today “Essential Read” editor pick:
Side Effects
From quirky to serious, trends in psychology and psychiatry
by Christopher Lane, Ph.D.DSM-5 Has Gone to Press Containing a Major Scientific Gaffe
The APA declined to correct the error, despite multiple warnings.Christopher Lane, PhD | February 8, 2013
When DSM-5 is published three months from now, in the middle of May, it will contain at least one major scientific gaffe. The Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association voted to include a definition of Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD) so broad and over-inclusive that it is certain to include medical patients with an outsized concern about their health, as well as those who are merely vigilant in trying to maintain it…
Lightweight feature in UK Times Magazine, Saturday, February 9, 2013:
Louise Carpenter | February 9 2013
Once it was a taboo. Now, in Silicon Valley, it’s almost a job qualification. So has the diagnosis lost its stigma, wonders Louise Carpenter…
Article on mental health diagnosis and DSM-5 co-authored by Dr Raj Persaud, Consultant Psychiatrist, and Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Professor of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.
http://www.simonwessely.com/dsm5.html
DSM-5 and the future of psychiatry
Did 2012 prove that psychiatric disease doesn’t exist?From doctors.net.uk 1.2.2013
At the end of this article is a link to a forthcoming CPD Certified conference at the Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Institute of Psychiatry, June 4-5, 2013:Conference:
DSM-5 and the Future of Psychiatric Diagnosis: Where is the roadmap taking us?
A two day international conference following the publication of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) will take place at the Institute of Psychiatry on the 4th and 5th of June 2013.
Mental health practitioners and researchers around the world anticipate the DSM-5 that is due to published by the American Psychiatric Association within the first few months of 2013.
Discussions about the DSM-5 have stretched well beyond the world of academic psychiatry having become a matter of intense public interest and media coverage.
The aim of this conference is to have a rigorous and comprehensive discussion of the clinical, research, and public health implications of the DSM-5. The perspective is international and speakers will include top scientists, key policy makers, patient representatives, and front-line clinicians.
Speakers include:
Professor David Kupfer, Head of DSM-5 Planning Committee and Professor at the University of Pittsburgh
Professor William Carpenter, DSM-5 Task Force Member and Professor at the University of Maryland
Professor David Clark, Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Dr Clare Gerada, General Practitioner and Chair of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners
Professor Catherine Lord, Director of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain and Professor at the University of Michigan
Professor Vikram Patel, Professor of International Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Professor Nikolas Rose, Head of the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine, Kings College London
Sir Michael Rutter, First Professor of child psychiatry in the UK and Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at Kings College London
Professor Norman Sartorius, Former director of the World Health Organization’s Division of Mental Health, and a former president of the World Psychiatric Association
Price: £350 (including lunches and an evening reception)
Dates:
* Tuesday 4th June | 09:45- 17:30 (evening reception to follow)
* Wednesday 5th June | 09:45 – 17:15
Venue: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Institute of Psychiatry
This event is CPD Certified
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