
When Does Ordinary Life Become a Mental Illness? When Psychiatry & Big Pharma Say So
The State – June 26, 2014 By Vince Ward, Ph.D. You must be crazy. Psychiatry and Big Pharma say so. The fifth edition of the…
The State – June 26, 2014 By Vince Ward, Ph.D. You must be crazy. Psychiatry and Big Pharma say so. The fifth edition of the…
Open Democracy – May 5, 2014 By Daniel George and Peter J. Whitehouse Being labeled ‘mentally ill’ can be an enormous burden: on individuals, their…
Elephant Journal – April 10, 2014 By Deron Drumm I was told to lower my life expectations. I am the Executive Director of a Connecticut mental…
Every decade or two, the American Psychiatric Association reworks its Diagnostic Statistical Manual, or DSM, to try to have diagnostic categories reflect the current state of theory and practice. Given enormous evidence that we’re currently overdiagnosing things and medicalizing normal behavior, many had hope that the upcoming DMS-5 — the fifth major revision — would show some restraint. We may see it yet — but not if we go down the track described in a post today by neuroscientist, blogger, and DSM watchdog Neuroskeptic:. It seems that the DSM-5 may include a new proposed “mood disorder” called “disruptive mood dysregulation disorder,” or DMDD.