Two interesting notes here. First, Ed Shorter isn't just a psychiatrist but one of the most influential historians of psychiatry around. His historiographic commitments are rather, uh, conventional, but he knows as much as anyone about nearly everything. Second, this article is a sample of the "new" Wall Street Journal, which was recently purchased by Rupert Murdoch who aims to use it to kill the New York Times, which he despises: http://nymag.com/news/media/64305/
Chris Green York U. Toronto ========== Horton, Joseph J. wrote: > > The Wall Street Journal offered an interesting perspective on DSM V > from the perspective of a psychiatrist. > *http://tinyurl.com/yh5ah47* > > * * > > Two paragraphs from the column: > > To flip through the latest draft of the American Psychiatric > Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, in the works for > seven years now, is to see the discipline's floundering writ large. > Psychiatry seems to have lost its way in a forest of poorly verified > diagnoses and ineffectual medications. Patients who seek psychiatric > help today for mood disorders stand a good chance of being diagnosed > with a disease that doesn't exist and treated with a medication little > more effective than a placebo. > > > > * * * > > A new problem is the extension of "schizophrenia" to a larger > population, with "psychosis risk syndrome." Even if you aren't > floridly psychotic with hallucinations and delusions, eccentric > behavior can nonetheless awaken the suspicion that you might someday > become psychotic. Let's say you have "disorganized speech." This would > apply to about half of my students. Pour on the Seroquel for > "psychosis risk syndrome"! > > > > Joe > > > > Joseph J. Horton, Ph. D. > > Box 3077 > > Grove City College > > Grove City, PA 16127 > > 724-458-2004 > > [email protected] > > > > In God we trust, all others must bring data. > > > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13132.a868d710aa4ef67a68807ce4fe8bd0da&n=T&l=tips&o=1012 > > <http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13132.a868d710aa4ef67a68807ce4fe8bd0da&n=T&l=tips&o=1012> > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-1012-13132.a868d710aa4ef67a68807ce4fe8bd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > <mailto:leave-1012-13132.a868d710aa4ef67a68807ce4fe8bd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> > -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=1026 or send a blank email to leave-1026-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
