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 From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[email protected]>
To: John Kane <[email protected]> 
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 
Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 3:41:36 AM
Subject: Re: The tyranny of the APA Manual (more or less on topic)
 

26/08/2013 18:41, John Kane:
>> This is very amusing indeed. Do they describe this particular obsession
>> in their catalog of mental illnesses? At least they dropped the
>> 'underscore instead of emphasize' madness some time ago.
>
> They don't have acatalog of mental illnesses. That's the American
> Psychiatric Association you're thinking of.

I stand corrected. I plead a trauma after trying to format a paper for a 
cognitive psychology journal on behalf of my wife :)

JMarc

Perfectly understandable. It is possible that the diagnostic manual (DSM-5) was 
written just to deal with APA Style trauma.  

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