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Saturday, December 12, 2009

American Psychiatry Is Facing "Civil War" over Its Diagnostic Manual

American Psychiatry Is Facing "Civil War" over Its Diagnostic Manual

Note: A lot of these shrinks are System Sucks.

Yesterday, the American Psychiatric Association announced that it is pushing back the publication of DSM-V until 2013. The APA tried to put a good face on this rather embarrassing admission—embarrassing, because several spokespeople for the organization had insisted, quite recently, that they were on-track for publication in 2012 and that nothing would deter them. They maintained that position even as an increasingly acrimonious quarrel between current and former editors of the manual spilled onto the pages of Psychiatric News.

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