Saturday, June 15, 2013

Psychiatric label surge alarming: After overseeing an earlier edition of the DSM, Frances has turned against it, talking of "diagnostic inflation" and the "radically increasing rates of disorders"...

Psychiatric label surge alarming - Stuff.co.nz

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Psychiatric label surge alarming
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Influential United States psychiatrist Allen Frances is one of them. After overseeing an earlier edition of the DSM, Frances has turned against it, talking of "diagnostic inflation" and the "radically increasing rates of disorders" that are affecting ...
New Psychiatric Disorders and Their Social Side EffectsHuffington Post
The DSM Thinks You're SickFirst Things (blog)
'This manual is, frankly, a disaster for children'Spiked

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Dr. James Nininger, Psychiatry, is named a Top Doctor: New York Metro Area. - Wall Street Journal

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Dr. James Nininger, Psychiatry, is named a Top Doctor: New York Metro Area.
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Dr. James Nininger, a Board Certified New York, NY physician specializing in Psychiatry, has been selected by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. for inclusion in its authoritative guide to the top primary care and specialty care doctors in the tri-state ...

Religion may improve wellness, Whitley says - The Dartmouth

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Religion may improve wellness, Whitley says
The Dartmouth
Believing in a religion enhances psychiatric well-being, fosters mental health and stimulates recovery, psychiatry professor Rob Whitley said in a lecture on Thursday afternoon. Despite the many benefits of collaboration between religion and psychiatry...

Weighing Your Mental Health Treatment Options - Metapsychology

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Weighing Your Mental Health Treatment Options
Metapsychology
He then clearly outlines the varieties of treatments such as therapy and medication thatpsychiatrists will likely prescribe for patients. Diamonds writing style and presentation walks the reader through the psychiatrist's thought process without ...

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Columbia psychiatry researchers suggest possible approaches to treat or ... - News-Medical.net

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Columbia psychiatry researchers suggest possible approaches to treat or ...
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Columbia Psychiatry researchers have identified what they think may be a mechanism underlying the development of compulsive behaviors. The finding suggests possible approaches to treating or preventing certain characteristics of OCD. OCD consists of ...

Mouse Brains Help Understand Origins Of OCDRedOrbit

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Psychiatric drugging of kids investigation opened up by the Vatican - eMaxHealth

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Psychiatric drugging of kids investigation opened up by the Vatican
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There has been a growing awareness of the completely fraudulent and dangerous nature ofpsychiatry. There are no biological markers for the myriad of what are actually mythical diagnoses of the psychiatrists. And the psychiatric drugs are all highly ...

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Psychiatrists protest against disgraced academic's lecture at research centre - The Independent

Psychiatrists protest against disgraced academic's lecture at research centre - The Independent

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Psychiatrists protest against disgraced academic's lecture at research centre
The Independent
The decision by the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College, in central London, Europe's largestpsychiatric research organisation, to invite Professor Charles Nemeroff, an expert in the treatment of depression, has split the psychiatric profession ...

Psychiatrist Exposes How Public Policies Have Devastated Health of Communities - Psychiatric News

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Psychiatrist Exposes How Public Policies Have Devastated Health of Communities
Psychiatric News
Terms such as “planned shrinkage,” “serial displacement,” and “Hope VI” are nowhere to be found in the lexicon of the average psychiatrist, but then again, Mindy Fullilove, M.D., is no averagepsychiatrist. She has dedicated her career to studying the ...

China Needs to Build Community Mental Health Structure - Psychiatric News

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China Needs to Build Community Mental Health Structure
Psychiatric News
Michael Phillips, M.D., an American psychiatrist and China mental health expert, and colleagues wrote April 29 in AJP in Advance that “this new law is a high-water mark for Chinese psychiatry, and potentially for global mental health.” The new law ...
Time to put our heads together on mental healthThe Canberra Times

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Bullying Exerts Psychiatric Effects Into Adulthood - HealthCanal.com

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Bullying Exerts Psychiatric Effects Into Adulthood
HealthCanal.com
Once considered a childhood rite of passage, bullying lingers well into adulthood. Bullies and victims alike are at risk for psychiatric problems such as anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and suicide when they become adults, reported a study ...

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Psychiatry faced three great quests over the last 30 years—the quest for valid classification systems, the quest for biological and psychological causal pathways in mental illness, and the quest for technological treatments used independently of ...

Caffeine withdrawal now considered a mental disorder in new psychiatry manual - Syracuse.com (blog)

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Caffeine withdrawal now considered a mental disorder in new psychiatry manual
Syracuse.com (blog)
That's how caffeine withdrawal is now classified in the American PsychiatricAssociation's new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, considered the bible of mental health. To be officially diagnosed, you must have at least three of ... 
Psychiatrists need to be open to other fieldsFinancial Times
DSM-5 enters the diagnostic frayScience News

Caffeine addiction can have a serious impact on your health. Source: SuppliedThe Australian 
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Most victims of partner violence fail to use mental health services - Healio

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Most victims of partner violence fail to use mental health services
Healio
Most survivors of intimate partner violence had not used mental health services in the past year despite having access to those services, researchers reported. “Social stigmas, shame, privacy concerns, health care costs and lack of information may ...

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Evolutionary Psychiatry: Gut and Brain Again 

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A long time ago, when I was an intern, I would drive into the hospital for ultra long shifts. Day went into night into the next day. You might be lucky to get one day off in a month. It's illegal now to work interns as much as we were ...

David Brooks Doesn't Get Psychiatry | RealClearScience

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On Monday, David Brooks weighed in on the debate about the merits of the latest edition of the DSM-5, psychiatry's primary diagnostic manual for mental disorders. As often happens when a columnist parachutes into a ...

Bryan Appleyard » Blog Archive » Psychiatry on Trial

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Psychiatry on Trial. Sunday Times, 03 June 2013. Our Necessary Shadow: The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry by Tom Burns Allen Lane £20/ebook £11.99 pp350. Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm than Good by James Davies ...

Oxford University Press rips American psychiatry, reveals the ... 

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Oxford University Press rips American psychiatry, reveals the following 13 examples of moral corruption and quackery.