
Psychiatry gets under the skin
LIFE is arduous, no doubt. And for some all the effort steers only a course to the doldrums. But do we suffer more now than in previous times?
LIFE is arduous, no doubt. And for some all the effort steers only a course to the doldrums. But do we suffer more now than in previous times?
On 22 May, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) published DSM-5, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, after months, perhaps even years, of speculation about its contents.
British psychologists are to say that current psychiatric diagnoses such as bipolar disorder are useless.
British psychologists are to say that current psychiatric diagnoses such as bipolar disorder are useless.
The world’s biggest mental health research institute is abandoning the new version of psychiatry’s “bible”…