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Podcast: Don’t Take Away My Asperger’s Diagnosis.
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Wacky-doodle diagnoses from the DSM committee, including internet addiction disorder, expanded ADD and GAD, temperament dysregulation disorder, and giving your soul away to meet criteria for PTSD.
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“Oh, what are you getting so excited about? I told you I was bi-polar.”
I just signed a recent petition from a committee of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Society for Humanistic Psychology protesting the proposed Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)-5 committee’s new diagnostic structure (read more about it and Dr. Kupfer’s [...]
In Finally Out: Letting Go of Living Straight, A Psychiatrist’s Story fellow psychiatrist and author Loren Olson writes an honest and unique story of what it is like to come out as gay at the age of 40. One of the strengths of this book is that not only is it empowering for [...]
by Anne Bremner, originally posted here.
I, for one, think Casey Anthony wants to testify. But should she?
Casey is the decider, not her defense team. Many people believe that the decision for a client to testify is solely the lawyer’s prerogative. Yet, legally, the decision rests with the client, taken under the [...]
Bo Callaway talks with Ross Mason.
I have been working on a program for soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan in the state of Georgia that I think will be a model for the nation. The project was initiated by the non-profit organization Warrior2Citizen (W2C), started by Brig Gen [...]
I am giving 3 talks @ Tucson 10/22 ‘Freud Meets Buddha’ mindfulness treatment of PTSD, depression and heart disease, and ‘Before You Take That Pill’ – focus on psychotropic meds. Click here to register.
On June 3, 2010, my sister Anne Bremner, an attorney from Seattle, WA, who is a frequent commenter on legal matters on FOX, CNN, and other channels, was side swiped by a car, driven off the road, crashed, and hit her head and suffered a concussion. She was coming from a party where she’d had a [...]
Rebecca Riley is a 4-year-old from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts who was found dead at the foot of her parents bed, covered by only a blanket, in 2007. Rebecca had been “diagnosed” with ADHD and bipolar disorder since the age of 2 and treated with Seroquel (quetiapine), Depakote (valproic acid), and clonidine, none of which [...]
Dan Carlat MD has just come out with a book on American psychiatry that has got a lot of people talking. In Unhinged: The Trouble With Psychiatry – A Doctor’s Revelations About a Profession in Crisis Dr. Carlat describes the practices of the typical psychiatrist. In order to generate the most income, most [...]
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