Real Psychiatry

Just when you think that Allen Frances has run out of editorial venues for his anti DSM5 critiques another one pops up.  This time it is i...

Just when you think you have seen it all, you run into an article like this one in The Atlantic .  A psychotherapist with a long antipsychia...

"The Catholic Church changes its pope more often than the APA publishes a new DSM." (reference 1) I was disappointed to see an...

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker The annual convention is approaching and the America...

This article came to my attention this week from the New York Times blogs.  The author identifies himself as a philosophy professor and s...

There are an endless number of ways that the appearance of conflict of interest can be spun to make any organization look bad.  The obviou...

In a rare statement of clarity amid the usual sensational spin this comment jumped out at me: "Doctors don't label...Doctors diag...

"However, in antedating contemporary neuroscience research the current diagnostic system is not informed by recent breakthroughs in gen...

That's right.  The latest sensational blast on the fate of that darling of the media the DSM5 is that it is dead on arrival.  That recen...

I know it is hard to believe.  Something about psychiatry in the NY Times that is not spun as negatively as possible.  One blogger referred ...

Let me start out by saying that I have a low opinion of the Huffington Post largely because of its rhetorical approach to psychiatry.  Tales...