As some of you know, yesterday the ApA (their APA, not ours) board of trustees formally approved the DSM-5 changes at a meeting in Alexandria, so it's on the way - for good, for bad, or both. Laptop having a bit of a psychotic break today, so can't seem to send the links (maybe a new DSM-5 category), but WSJ had an article on it today, I believe, and there's quite a bit of news coverage of it today elsewhere. Also, check out Allen Frances' Psychology Today blog for an extremely critical review of what he sees as the top 10 bad changes. I do worry that it will be an unholy mess once it appears; at the very least, it will almost certainly be the most widely criticized DSM ever. Some of this, I suspect, may be a function of the internet era, in which one can criticize anything and everything; but I also think that some of it surely reflects the potentially problematic and hotly contested decisions that Frances decries.
Happy to send tomorrow when I get into the office (sorry again that I can't seem to send right now..)....Scott ________________________________________ From: Mike Palij [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 12:39 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Michael Palij Subject: re: [tips] NY Times article on DSM5 & Personality Disorders On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 09:05:13 -0800, Jim Clark wrote: >Hi >Interesting article >http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/health/clearing-the-fog-around-personality-disorders.html?ref=science Just to add to the potential confusion that DSM-5 may cause is the elimination of Asperger's syndrome and merging that diagnosis with "autism spectrum disorder"; see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/dec/02/aspergers-syndrome-dropped-psychiatric-dsm I haven't been following the DSM-5 changes much but I do have the impression that the result will be something of a mess. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13509.d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9b2f&n=T&l=tips&o=22137 or send a blank email to leave-22137-13509.d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9...@fsulist.frostburg.edu ________________________________ This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). --- 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=22138 or send a blank email to leave-22138-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
