On Sunday, December 02, 2012 12:55 PM, Scott O Lilienfeld wrote:
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.
There's a short article on the vote in the ApP's "Psychiatric News"; see: http://www.psychnews.org/files/DSM-message.pdf
Laptop having a bit of a psychotic break today,
Hmmm, sounds like an Axis I computer illness. ;-)
so can't seem to send the links (maybe a new DSM-5 category), but WSJ had an article on it today, I believe,
I don't know if this is the one that Scott is referring to but it might do until he can provide the proper link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324205404578153771774040756.html
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 think Scott might be referring to this: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dsm5-in-distress/201212/dsm-5-is-guide-not-bible-ignore-its-ten-worst-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.
Is there a new entry for "Reality Television Disorder" for (a) people who participate in them and/or (b) feel compelled to watch them? I suspect that there would a "Honey Boo-Boo" subcategory; consider: http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/honey-boo-boos-cousin-crazy-tony-lindsey-arrested----in-a-gorilla-suit-20123011
Happy to send tomorrow when I get into the office (sorry again that I can't seem to send right now..)....Scott
We'll be here. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] ________________________________________ 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. --- 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=22139 or send a blank email to leave-22139-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
