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Diagnostic Inflation in DSM (Allen Frances, MD, Emeritus Professor, Duke University)
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Click here to watch: “Allen J. Frances on the Overdiagnosis of Mental Illness” via YouTube. The video comes from his lecture, Diagnostic Inflation: Does Everyone Have a Mental Illness?

Please see below for some commentary from our Managing Editor, N. Szajnberg, MD.

This is a crisp, forthright account of “rising” incidence of psychiatric disorders in the US (especially when compared to other Western societies) and the social/fiscal factors that artificially inflate “diagnoses,” outside of scientific or clinical considerations.

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Eigen, Kaballah, Psychoanalysis
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Mike Eigen, a Bion scholar, has given several talks on Kaballah and psychoanalysis at the NYU postdoctoral program on Contemplative studies.

He’s generously offered that we can post them on IP.net

– Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

Click here to listen to the rendered audio of three Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis seminars given by Michael Eigen, sponsored by the NYU Contemplative Studies Project, as well as another for NPAP 2010-2012, “Madness and Murder, Faith and Transformation, Contact with the Depths.”