The arguments over the forthcoming revision of the psychiatrists' diagnostic manual, the DSM-V, have just been heated up again by an unusually acerbic response from the American Psychiatric Association attacking their main critic.The article that condemns the new diagnostic manual committee by ex-DSM chairman Allen Francis' has just been officially published, alongside an interview where he furth
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June 30, 2009
DSM-V bun fight in full swing
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June 27, 2009
Ex psychiatric bible chief slams new secret committee
The forthcoming revision of the psychiatrists' diagnostic manual, the DSM-V, is controversially being written behind closed doors and has already sparked criticisms for its lack of openness to outside scrutiny. So far, critics have managed to raise little more than smoke signals but the tinderbox may well have just been ignited by an article of scorching criticism penned by the head of the last D
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