Search Results labeling Mental Health • Health Dec 25, 2017 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, […]... Read Full Article Mental Health Dec 25, 2017 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 […]... Read Full Article Mental Health • Health Dec 25, 2017 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 […]... Read Full Article Mental Health • Relationships Dec 21, 2017 Mental Health Stigma: More Than Just a Matter of Diagnosis Part I: The Delicate Topic of Stigma, Labeling, and the Search for the Common Good In March of this year, Leah Harris published a wonderfully thought-provoking article entitled Why We […]... Read Full Article All Articles