Some say it is the biggest controversy in psychiatry; even the only controversy in psychiatry.
Me, I think it is rubbish, really. Someone ought to cut to the heart of the matter.
Every single edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatry (Current edition is DSM-5) has been based on the description of behavior. Clarified with counting of behaviors. To assign one of the diagnostic codes necessary to receive a pension takes counting how often someone has a panic attack, how many nights a week someone has trouble sleeping — things like that. Read more on Damn The DSM!…
Filed under News, Psychiatrists, Research by on Jan 1st, 2018. Comment. 
My telephone was cradled between my left ear and my shoulder, as I pounded the keyboard of the sluggish rural county computer with one of the requisite patient visit fill-in-the-blanks atrocities — er, I mean “reports.” Finally, I heard the person I was waiting for pick up the other end.
“Hello,” I said. “Is this doctor A…….(name unpronounceable to native speakers of English)?”
-“Yes,” he answered, “I am the only doctor here.”
“This is Doctor Goldstein. I am one of the psychiatrists at the county mental health clinic.”
-“Really? And you call me?” Read more on The County Mental Health Clinic’s Referral…
Filed under depression, Doctors, Government, News, Public Health System by on Jan 15th, 2016. Comment.