Real Psychiatry

  I was minding my own business on Twitter last week and noticed a slide posted with the image of the DSM-5.   It did not take too long the ...

From the DSM-5 under criteria B.4. for a manic episode: "Flight of ideas or...

Nassir Ghaemi, MD has a commentary on Robert Spitzer, MD in this month's Clinical Psychiatry News.   After citing quotes by Sha...

I am back at my usual computer tonight and feeling much better after attending the UW Psychiatric Update. It was well attended and I estima...

As anyone reading the newspapers has heard, the DSM-5 went on sale earlier this year amidst a cacophony of DSM bashing and bashing of the pr...

Allen Frances continues to erect his wall of criticism of DSM-5.  He shows no sign of slowing down even after the DSM-5 was released.  He ha...