Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM) – A New Vision for Mental Health

A Psychiatric Diagnosis is Not a Disease

Author: Editorial 20th March 2024 0 Comments

“Here is the circular logic: How do we know a patient has depression ? Because they have certain symptoms. Why are they having these symptoms? Because they have depression.” This article by Dr. Jonathan Shedler has been published in Psychology Today. It…
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Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM), diagnostic labelling, disease model, Jonathan Shedler, psychiatry, Psychology Today

In my career as a psychologist, I’ve seen many children misdiagnosed as autistic. It’s a clinical catastrophe

Author: Editorial 9th February 2024 0 Comments

This article by Shoshana Levin Fox has been published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “The All-Purpose Diagnosis The one-size-fits-all Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis, as configured in the Revised Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental…
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Theoretical Alternatives to the Psychiatric Model of Mental Disorder Labeling: Contemporary Frameworks, Taxonomies, and Models

Author: Editorial 5th February 2024 0 Comments

This book has been edited by Arnoldo Cantú, Eric Maisel, and Chuck Ruby. The publishers (Ethics International Press) say: “Theoretical Alternatives to the Psychiatric Model of Mental Disorder Labeling is the fourth Volume of the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and…
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Seven reasons why most Major Depression is probably not a brain disorder

Author: Editorial 25th January 2024 0 Comments

This article by Ed Hagen has been published on the Grasshoppermouse website. It begins: “Virtually all mental health researchers accept that Major Depression (MD) is a mental disorder, i.e., a brain dysfunction. I argue that this widespread belief should instead be…
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depression, Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM), Ed Hagen, Grasshoppermouse, Major Depressive Disorder, psychiatry, serious adverse events

Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5-TR: cross sectional analysis

Author: Editorial 12th January 2024 0 Comments

This study has been published in the British Medical Journal. The abstract says: “Objective: To assess the extent and types of financial ties to industry of panel and task force members of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,…
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Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry: How Modern Psychiatry Lost Its Way While Creating a Diagnosis for Almost All of Life’s Misfortunes

Author: Editorial 14th December 2023 0 Comments

This book comes from Joel Paris. The publishers say: “Dr. Joel Paris’s Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry takes a much-needed look at the dangerous epidemic of unnecessary or incorrect treatments. The last 30 years of psychiatry have seen the development of a system of classification…
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books, diagnosis, Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM), joel paris, psychiatry

The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology

Author: Editorial 11th December 2023 0 Comments

This book has been written by Edward Shorter. The publishers say: “The Age of Psychopharmacology began with a brilliant rise in the 1950s, when for the first time science entered the study of drugs that affect the brain and mind. But, esteemed…
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The Problem of Polydiagnosis

Author: Editorial 10th November 2023 0 Comments

“What we may miss when we assign multiple psychiatric diagnoses to one person” This article by Mark Ruffalo has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “Many patients with whom I meet for the first time tell me that they have…
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Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM), Mark Ruffalo, Nassir Ghaemi, polydiagnosis., psychiatry, Psychology Today

Open letter regarding the reform and revision of diagnostic systems

Author: Editorial 10th June 2020 0 Comments

“We … recommend a paradigmatic revision of the empirical and conceptual frameworks used to think about mental health. A classification approach that pursues the neo-Kraepelinian goal (now nearly half a century old) of establishing biomarkers for individual conditions or symptoms…
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Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM), diagnostic labelling, Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology(HiTOP), International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), psychiatry, Research Domain Criteria(RDoC), Task Force on Diagnostic Alternatives (TFDA)

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health

Author: Editorial 27th March 2020 0 Comments

Written by Nathan Filer, this book was originally called “The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia”. The Goodreads review says: “Schizophrenia: whether it’s the associations it conjures or the people it brings to mind, it is a word we all have a view…
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