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DSM Shadow Team: Bipolar as Psychotic Disorder? Are These People Out of their Minds?

By On June 2, 2009 · 7 Comments

More lunacy at the APA meeting this week. Now there is discussion of whether Bipolar Disorder should be re-categorized as a Psychotic Disoder. Well, long term readers of the Drug Safety and Health News will remember my views on Bi-polar Disorder…

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Authors of Bogus Letter Asking for Removal of Dissociative Disorders from DSM Dance Together Around a Maypole

By On May 1, 2009 · 9 Comments

Recently a bogus letter was written to the head of the DSM V Committee, David Kupfer MD, by several psychiatrists, arguing that Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) should be removed from the DSM. Here is the letter:

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Shadow Team Fights Back on Validity of Dissociative Disorders

By On April 30, 2009 · 7 Comments

A reader sent a recent paper my way by Timo Giesbrecht, Steven Jay Lynn, Harald Merckelbach, and Scott Lilienfeld, in the journal Psychological Bulletin, with the title “Cognitive Processes in Dissociation: An Analysis of Core Theoretical Assumptions.” This paper makes me have to throw my glove down in disgust and, what is more extreme, fire up my Photoshop software.

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DSM V Shadow Team Strikes Back at Psychiatric Establishment on PTSD

By On March 24, 2009 · 42 Comments

several recent articles on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by journalists who seem to have granted themselves honorary degrees in psychiatry and who quote whatever ridiculous opinion from psychiatrists that happens to cross their desk as if it is, well, worth quoting, have prompted us to speak out.

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Announcing the Launch of DSM V Shadow Team

By On January 28, 2009 · 1 Comment

There has been some press that most of the members of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Psychiatry (DSM-V) task force are on the pharma payroll, but although sites like Public Citizen quote that 16/28 members are on the payroll, if you actually look at the list on the APA web site there are [...]

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