By MARC E. AGRONIN, M.D.
Published: March 2, 2010
Often we imagine that life ends at the nursing home door, a myopic view that hurts the aging as well as ourselves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/health/02case.html
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By JONAH LEHRER
from the NYT Magazine Published February 25, 2010
Is there an evolutionary purpose to feeling really sad?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/magazine/28depression-t.html
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Edward Shorter, University of Toronto History of Medicine and Psychiatry Professor, has written an article entitled, Why Psychiatry Needs Therapy: A manual’s draft reflects how diagnoses have grown foggier, drugs more ineffective, that appears in last Saturday’s Wall Street Journal.
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New research analyzed physical contact to see whether a rich vocabulary of supportive touch is in fact related to performance.
Published: February 23, 2010 in the NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/health/23mind.html
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Publication of the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) in May 2013 will mark one the most anticipated events in the mental health field. As part of the development process, the preliminary draft revisions to the current diagnostic criteria for psychiatric diagnoses are now available for public review and comment. We thank you for your interest in DSM-5 and hope that you use this opportunity not only to learn more about the proposed changes in DSM-5, but also about its history, its impact, and its developers. Please continue to check this site for updates to criteria and for more information about the development process.
http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx
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By BENEDICT CAREY Published Feb 10, 2010 NYT
Changes to the psychiatry guidebook that largely sets society’s line for normal behavior could affect treatment.
Read full article http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/health/10psych.html
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By AMY BLOOM
Published: January 31, 2010 in the NYT
The fashion is to bemoan happiness books and positive psychology as the work of morons.
See full article http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/books/review/Bloom-t.html
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from the NYT Magazine
by Ethan Watters Published: January 10, 2010
In recent years, American ideas about psychiatric disorders have spread around the globe. Is that really good for the world’s mental health?
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By JUDITH WARNER Published in the NYT: January 9, 2010
This is the big picture of mental health care in America: people with real illnesses lack access to care; face barriers like ignorance, stigma and high prices; or find care that is ineffective.
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My article on etherapy with transgender clients has just been published in the International Journal of Transgenderism
Here is the abstract:
ABSTRACT. This invited article provides background and exploratory material for the potential in- clusion of etherapy in Version 7 of the Standards of Care (SOC). A brief overview of the literature, its applicability and extrapolation to transgender clients, the rationale for etherapy, and clinical and ethi- cal considerations, both general and specific to transpeople, are described. Included in the discussion is an online psychotherapy case and commentary involving a Saudi-based American male-to-female transperson and a San Francisco therapist. The article concludes with specific content for a recommen- dation for the inclusion of etherapy (but not online evaluation and referral) in the next revision of the SOC.
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