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• in Lifestyle
  Limiting Debt May Be Good For Your Mental Health
  Research suggests personal debt linked to several mental health problems
  by wry999 / on Jun 20, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  Close Encounters of the Hoarding Kind
  My personal experience with a someone who had a compulsive hoarding disorder lead me to find out about this condition and the many people it afflicts.
  by roaduron / on May 20, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “mental disorders”

 

• Epidemiology of Childhood Brain Disorders: ADHD and Autism

  
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  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has published a comprehensive summary of the epidemiology of childhood brain disorders in the most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report . This report produced some sensationalized headlines that up to 20% of children suffer from a mental disorder.   However, I ...
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• Stacked deck 4 U.S. kids

  
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  CDC study finds 1 in 5 kids may have a mental disorder By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian REUTERS NEW YORK — Up to 20 percent of children in the United States suffer from a mental disorder , and the number of kids diagnosed with one has been rising for more than a decade , according to a report released yesterday by ...
  6 days ago

• DSM-5 Published, ‘Critical Guidebook for Clinicians’

  
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  The much-anticipated 5th edition of the reference manual mental health professionals use to classify and diagnose mental disorders — called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — was officially released today. The DSM-5, as it’s called, was published today after a 14 year revision process. ...
  1 week ago

• How Psychiatry Went Crazy: The “bible” of psychiatric diagnosis shapes—and deforms—both treatment…

  
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  How Psychiatry Went Crazy: The “bible” of psychiatric diagnosis shapes—and deforms—both treatment… Wall Street Journal ^ | May 17, 2013 | CAROL TAVRIS Posted on Saturday, May 18, 2013 3:33:46 PM by neverdem   The “bible” of psychiatric diagnosis shapes—and deforms—both treatment and policy… ...
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• DSM-5 Released: The Big Changes

  
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  The DSM-5 was officially released today. We will be covering it in the weeks to come here on the blog and over at Psych Central Professional in a series of upcoming articles detailing the major changes. In the meantime, here is an overview of the big changes. We sat in on a conference call that the American ...
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• DSM-5; step into the straight-jacket…

  
  this fragile tent — Authority: 135
    It is out today. Back in February, I wrote a long piece reflecting on a number of issues thrown up by the new American Psychiatric Association edition of the Dignostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders. I confessed to considerable skepticism and concerns into the way this hugely dominant ...
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• Clinician’s guide to DSM-5

  
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  By Joel Paris, MD The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ) is a classification of all diagnoses given to patients by mental health professionals. Since the publication of the third edition in 1980, each edition has been a subject of intense interest to the general public. The current ...
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• DSM-5 News & Commentary Roundup

  
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  ReutersLegal posts, "Psychiatrists unveil their long-awaited diagnostic bible," by Sharon Begley. Its an excellent overview of the debate raging over the new publication. The long-awaited, controversial new edition of the bible of psychiatry can be characterized by many numbers: its...
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• DSM5: Rewriting the Diagnostic Bible

  
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  Sometimes a book is more than just a book: it is an occasion for high anxiety.  For instance, in just a few days, the  American Psychiatric Association will unveil the fifth edition of its handbook of diagnoses, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders . More than a few – patients and ...
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• Editorial: Shortcomings of a Psychiatric Bible

  
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  The most important diagnostic manual for mental illnesses lacks scientific validity.        
  2 weeks ago

• Opinion: Why the Fuss Over the D.S.M.-5?

  
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  The new handbook of diagnoses won’t matter much to practicing psychiatrists.        
  2 weeks ago

• Alternative model for personality disorders in upcoming DSM-5

  
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  A new “alternative model” included in the upcoming Fifth Edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM -5) lines up...
  2 weeks ago

• 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, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Psychiatry, biology, neurology, stupidity.

  
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  Just weeks before the long-awaited publication of a new edition of the so-called bible of mental disorders, the federal government’s 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 of Mental ...
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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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• Psychiatry’s New Guide Falls Short, Experts Say

  
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  Weeks before a new edition of the so-called bible of mental disorders is released, the federal government’s most prominent psychiatric expert said it had a scientific “lack of validity.”        
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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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• Top 10 Common Psychological Complexes

  
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  It is easy to think of psychological complexes as something that affects other people, but you may just be surprised to learn that you have one or two of your own. Psychological complexes don’t have to be of the Mother obsession (Oedipus complex) varieties that are made so popular in Hollywood movies. They can ...
  3 weeks ago

• DSM-5 and psychiatric progress

  
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  By Tom Burns National Mental Health week in May this year will see the launch of the eagerly anticipated DSM-5 . This is the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual which defines all psychiatric diagnoses and is often referred to as ‘the psychiatrists’ ...
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• Redefining Mental Disorders as Brain Disorders: TED Talk of Thomas Insel

  
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  Components of Brain Limbic System Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and autism are a public health priority. Dr. Thomas Insel, director at NIMH recently presented a TED talk that emphasized the need to rethink how we conceptualize and study these types ...
  3 weeks ago

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