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WHEN IS DISCLOSURE NOT DISCLOSURE? Hint: When it is made by the Chairman of the DSM-5 Task Force. Here is a case study in conflict of intere...

Labels: Bernard Carroll, conflicts of interest, David Kupfer, deception, DSM-5, JAMA, JAMA Psychiatry, NIMH, Robert Gibbons, Thomas Insel

Posted by Admin | 12:38 AM

DOES AMERICAN PSYCHIATRY MATTER? The blogmeister of 1boringoldman.com has done it again. A semi-retired psychiatrist in rural Georgia, he ha...

Labels: 1boringoldman.com, Allen Frances, American Psychiatric Association, Bernard Carroll, diagnostic inflation, diagnostic validity, DSM-5, ICD-11, Melvin Sabshin, Robert Spitzer

Posted by Admin | 8:59 AM

SELF INFLICTED DAMAGE The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is in the news again for bad public relations: worse than bad, actually – a...

Labels: Allen Frances, American Psychiatric Association, Bernard Carroll, DSM-5, free speech, SLAPP, Suzy Chapman