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Why the DSM Differential Diagnosis Is So Disappointing
For many clinicians like myself, families come to us with insurance that they seek to use in addressing psychological issues. As most know, in order to utilize the insurance benefits, […]
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The Proliferation and Elimination of Mental Illness: Clinging to the Slopes of Everest
A month ago, I published a critique of specific terminology of DSM-5. Like countless others, I have serious concerns about the overpathologizing of normal behaviors that appears to be occurring over […]
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Dear DSM-5: I Still Have Some Questions
DSM-5 has just been published—not a happy moment in the history of psychiatry or for me personally. It risks turning diagnostic inflation into hyperinflation—further cheapening the currency of psychiatric diagnosis […]
Health • Mental Health
The Can Collector’s Club: Clarifying Where Mental Health Begins
In 1980, my father started the Can Collector’s Club (CCC). I was 2 years old. As the story goes, it was my mother’s brainchild, but dad quickly took ahold of […]