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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, […]
Mental Health
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 […]
Health • Mental Health
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 […]
Articles
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 […]
Articles
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 […]
Mental Health • Relationships
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 […]