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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “dsm”

 

• NIMH Abandons the DSM-5

  
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  Andy Coghlan and Sara Reardon write at the New Scientist : The world’s biggest mental health research institute is abandoning the new version of psychiatry’s “bible” – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , questioning its validity and stating that “patients with mental disorders ...
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• NIMH Abandons the DSM-5

  
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  Andy Coghlan and Sara Reardon write at the New Scientist: The world’s biggest mental health research institute is abandoning the new version of psychiatry’s “bible” – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, questioning its validity and stating that “patients with mental disorders deserve ...
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• Minds are what brains do

  
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  Originally published in the Daily Maverick At the time when I was most uncharitable towards psychology, it struck me as obviously absurd that we’d devote centuries of scholarship towards treating something grounded in fiction. Our devotion wasn’t limited to time spent in study, but also included resources ...
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• Recap: Dallas Summer Musicals Presents The High School Music Awards At The Music Hall

  
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  Dakota Ratliff, Best Leading Actress Award winner as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors from Ryan High School; Ron Corning, emcee, WFAA Channel 8, media sponsor; Cameron Wenrich, Best Leading Actor award winner as Frank Cioffi in Curtains, from Plano Senior High School.(Photo credit: Chris Waits) On the evening of May ...
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• Dr. Tom Insels Shameful DSM Retreat

  
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  Left - Transforming Diagnosis Insel Right - NIMH Is Not Abandoning the DSM Insel. In Transforming Diagnosis NIMH Director Thomas Insel said that the DSM was invalid, based on an antiquated system of diagnosis and .... patients deserve better.   Then he retreated, tried to hide and claimed that ...
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• National Institute of Mental Health Will Not Support DSM-V

  
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  The National Institute of Mental Health has proposed an alternative to the updated, widely used Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), but the NIMH approach includes its own host of complications.
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• Time to revamp psychiatry and mental health in light of modern neuroscience?

  
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  Transforming Diagnosis (article by Thomas Insel, Director of the NIMH): “In a few weeks, the American Psychiatric Association will release its new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)…While DSM has been described as a “Bible” for the field, it is, at best, a dictionary, ...
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• New DSM Criteria Manual Challenged by Expert for Lack of Validity

  
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  Setting standards for the assessment of psychiatric criteria in workers compensation claims has been a major challenge. Subjective criteria has been difficult for the experts, evaluators and courts to yield an objective analysis. With a new version of the  Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental ...
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• The Separation of Depression and Bipolar in the New DSM-5

  
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  The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM) is frequently called psychiatry’s “bible.” I, however, would not pen it that way. I would suggest that the DSM is simply a guideline for the diagnosis of mental illness . It lists the criteria one has to have in order to be diagnosed with a ...
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• More Madness from Psychiatrists

  
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  The director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Thomas R. Insel, tells the New York Times that the new Diagnostic Statistical Manual – the psychiatrists’ bible – is a crock. But we will still be endlessly taxed to pay for treatments that shrinks gin up as a result of the profusion of new bogus ...
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• Experts Arent Psyched About New DSM

  
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  This month, a revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—known as the DSM-5—is set to be published, but a growing number of experts in the field are questioning the scientific validity of the guide, and list a number of "potentially harmful" changes. Read more...       ...
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• Did the NIMH Withdraw Support for the DSM-5? No

  
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  In the past week, I’ve seen some incredibly sensationalistic articles published about the upcoming DSM-5 and a letter recently released by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). In the letter by Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the NIMH, wrote in part, “That is why NIMH will be re-orienting its research ...
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• Best of Our Blogs: May 7, 2013

  
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  It’s easy to cross over from stressed to overwhelmed especially if you’ve been recently diagnosed with an illness. What once may have caused you worry, now seems superficial. Welcome to the club! While it can seem like a scary process to navigate where you were to where you are now, you are not alone. It’s what ...
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• Psychiatry’s Guide Is Out of Touch With Science, Experts Say

  
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  By The New York TimesJust weeks before the long-awaited publication of a new edition of the so-called bible of mental disorders, the federal governments most prominent psychiatric expert has said the book suffers from a scientific "lack of validity."The expert, Dr. Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute ...
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• NIMH Agrees: DSM 5 Needs Revision

  
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  Old Markers Less Useful ADHD Diagnosis Needs Revision Dr Thomas Insel , Director of the National Institutes of Mental Health , joins the growing group of leading psychiatrists who address the neuroscientific inadequacy of the current diagnostic system. Check out this report in detail at Mind Hacks: ...
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• NIMH: A Requiem for DSM - and its Critics

  
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  The NIMH has asserted clearly that DSM is scientifically invalid. Finally, the "pragmatic" cynics about science who have led DSM editions are being challenged, as are the anti-biology critics of psychiatry. It is the beginning of the end of two generations of futility in psychiatric progress. read more
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• ‘There’s a Difference between a Constitution and a Book of Medical Diagnoses’

  
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  The reason there haven’t been any sensible findings tying genetics or any kind of molecular biology to DSM categories is not only that our instruments are crude, but also that the DSM categories aren’t real.
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• The NIMH Withdraws Support for DSM-5

  
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  In a humiliating blow to the APA, the National Institute of Mental Health has withdrawn its support for DSM-5. read more
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• National Institute of Mental Health Abandoning the DSM in Favor of a "Brain Disorder" Model

  
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  This morning, Mind Hacks posted an article about the decision by the NIMH to abandon the DSM model for diagnosing mental illness - two weeks before its planned publication date. Undoubtedly, the is a major blow to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the creators and publishers of the DSM. This may appear to ...
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• DSM Mumbo Jumbo sez NIMH Director

  
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  The National Institute of Mental Health director says the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the notorious “DSM”) lacks validity, and diagnostic criteria should be no longer based on subjectively-determined symptoms, but rather objective data: . . .Unlike our… Read more →
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