Click Here to Read: Psychiatry’s Guide Is Out of Touch With Science, Experts Say By Pam Belluck and Benedict Carey in The New York Times on May 6, 2013.
Freud & His Couch: 5 Psychoanalysts, 2 Designers And 1 Architect Engage In A Little Free Association
Statement on the DSM-5 by David Kupfer, MD
Statement by David Kupfer, MD
Chair of DSM-5 Task Force Discusses Future of Mental Health Research
The promise of the science of mental disorders is great. In the future, we hope to be able to identify disorders using biological and genetic markers that provide precise diagnoses that can be delivered with complete reliability and validity. Yet this promise, which we have anticipated since the 1970s, remains disappointingly distant. We’ve been telling patients for several decades that we are waiting for biomarkers. We’re still waiting. In the absence of such major discoveries, it is clinical experience and evidence, as well as growing empirical research, that have advanced our understanding of disorders such as autism spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. Continue reading Statement on the DSM-5 by David Kupfer, MD
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The Tsarnaevs’ Facilitators
Click Here to Read: The Tsarnaevs’ Facilitators Who inspired the alleged Boston marathon bombers to find meaning in the most violent forms of madness? By Lee Smith in The Tablet on May 2, 2013.
An exterior view of the Islamic Society of Boston Mosque on April 26, 2013, in Cambridge, Mass. The mosque was attended by the alleged Boston bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Mosque leaders there have publicly condemned the violence; they held inter-faith prayer service Friday to mourn the victims of the terrorist attacks. (Kayana Szymczak/Getty Images)
Japan scientists can ‘read’ dreams
The Chinese Are Freaking Out About A Potential Drop In Housing Prices
Interpretation of seams?
Click Here to Read: Interpretation of seams? Sigmund Freud’s couch needs £5,000 restoration. Freud Museum in London launches appeal for funds to restore ‘possibly the most famous piece of furniture in the world’ by Maev Kennedy in The Guardian on May 5, 2013.
Sigmund Freud’s couch at the Freud Museum, North London. Photograph: Sophia Evans
Psychiatry in Crisis!
Click Here to Read: Psychiatry in Crisis! Mental Health Director Rejects Psychiatric “Bible” and Replaces With… Nothing By John Horgan in Scientific American on May 4, 2013.
Click Here to Read: The NIMH Withdraws Support for DSM-5The latest development is a humiliating blow to the APA. by Christopher Lane, Ph.D. on the in Side Effects blog on the Psychology Today blog on May 4, 2013.
