DSM Archive
We are so blessed… we had a big day yesterday: I babysat my almost two years old grandson for four hours while his brothers celebrated their birthdays at Monkey Joe’s. Lawrence ran errands. Then a volunteer from Hospice came….a Chinese …
I have mixed feeling regarding the psychiatric diagnosis of American Presidents. I prefer moral language for some of their conditions. There's a detailed literature on their depressive grief, alcoholism, and Alzheimer's. Yes, the Gipper was losing his shit. Some of …
Why do I teach psychoanalysis? What do I want to accomplish in the semester to follow? I'll start with Freud. Freud had two intellectual obligations that remain mine. The first is to a vision of our animal nature and the …
How is the world real? What is its composition? Is it found or created? What are its limits? What is the connection between our behavior and our world(s)? The early Wittgenstein and the late Peter Ossorio worked it out this …
Image via As the 2016 presidential election approaches, psychologists are gaining media attention by diagnosing candidates as having personality disorders, especially for the Republican nominee. But the public should question whether or not offering these diagnoses is professionally ethical or in the …
The neurochemical reshaping of personality has had many unanticipated consequences. I acknowledge that the debate is not ended by the Chapter in my A Rumor of Empathy on “Plato Not Prozac,” the name of which is hereby acknowledged to be from …
Texas legislators passed a bill last week to create an ombudsman who will independently address issues foster youth have with the Department of Family and Protective Services. The ombudsman will work for the Health and Human Services Commission and oversee …
Poorly framed descriptions of psychotherapy serve as a pretext for the requirement that the efficacy of therapy requires demonstration through randomized control trials. Such restriction involves an inadequate conceptualization of the nature of psychotherapeutic engagement but is an understandable reaction …
By Candice HongA rescuer of sex slaves discusses the difficulties of his work, but endorses the positive impact it has on a society. “This initial process can take anywhere from one week to a year or more, depending on the …
Based on her ethnographic study of psychiatric residency programs, anthropologist T.M. Luhrmann concluded psychiatry is “of two minds”: one “mind” emphasizes the role of neurochemistry, while the other “mind” places more importance on the context of our suffering, including …
