Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table

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Click Here to Read: Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table by Oliver Sacks in The New York Times on July 24, 2015.

Click Here to Read: Oliver Sacks: Sabbath by Oliver Sacks in The New York Times on August 14, 2015.

Click Here to Read: Oliver Sacks, who has taught us so much, now teaches us the art of dying by Ranjana Srivastava on the Guardian website on July 25, 2015.

Click Here to Read: ‘On the Move,’ by Oliver Sacks, Reviewed By Andrew Solomon in The New York Times on May 11, 2015. Continue reading Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table

What happened to discussion of interrogations? by Bill MacGillvray

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Division Forum: I wrote this summary below for my local chapter. Bill

I would like to update everyone who wasn’t able to attend APA Convention in Toronto and especially the Council of Representatives meetings that week. As many of you now know, I assume, the revelations in the New York Times by James Risen many months ago prompted the APA Board of Directors (BoD) to commission an investigation by a Chicago attorney. David Hoffman. The report was leaked to the Times several weeks ago, just before it was to be discussed by a subset of the APA BoD before its general release. Interestingly, this group also invited Steven Reisner and Stephen Soldz to also review and make recommendations to this group. Continue reading What happened to discussion of interrogations? by Bill MacGillvray

Abstracts from Two Articles on Sexuality by Jack Drescher et al.

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Drescher J: Queer Diagnoses Revisited: The Past and Future of Homosexuality and Gender Diagnoses in DSM and ICD. International Review of Psychiatry, 2015

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The American Psychiatric Association (APA) recently completed a several year process of revising the fifth edition of the *Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders* (DSM-5). During that time, there were objections raised to retaining DSM’s gender identity disorder diagnoses and calls to remove them, just as homosexuality had Continue reading Abstracts from Two Articles on Sexuality by Jack Drescher et al.