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The American Psychiatric Asso-ciation's DSM diagnostic system has outlived its usefulness
by about two decades. It should be abandoned, not revised. Its primary achievement was to …

Almost 2 decades ago, when I graduated from psychiatric residency, DSM-IV was published.
You will receive this letter along with, I'm sure, the spanking new shiny edition of DSM-5. I …

This commentary suggests how the research community can be instrumental in improving
DSM-V and helping it avoid unintended consequences. According to several converging …

The commentary" A Warning Sign on the Road to DSM-V: Beware of Its Unintended
Consequences" by Allen Frances, MD, contains factual errors and assumptions about the …

Vital Signs: Seroquel, Abilify Among Top 10 Drugs in 2009 Page 1 2 NEWS JULY 2010 •
CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY NEWS Executive Director, Operations Jim Chicca Director …

In outlining the approaching revision of DSM-IV-TR, we should distinguish between
questions that are fundamentally empirical—those that can be addressed by forming clear …

This article is meant to suggest an analogy to the 1964 movie Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I
Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. That movie was a satirical commentary on …

There is no magic moment when it becomes clear the world needs a new DSM. The
publication dates of previous DSMs were determined by revision dates of the International …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in 2013-1077-2-1 of
PsycCRITIQUES (see record 2013-42985-001). The review contained three errors within the …