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DSM-5

When medicine reaches a dead end

Theron Bowers | 23 April 2010 |

tags: DSM-5, psychiatry, sex crimes

Psychiatrists are thinking of classifying habitual rapists as victims of Paraphilic Coercive Disorder. This doesn't even help the criminals.

Crazy controversy

Phillip Elias | 23 March 2010 |

tags: DSM-5, psychiatry

We need psychiatrists to tell us whether we are bad, sad, or mad. But how do they know? They look it up in the DSM. And who writes the DSM?

A textbook diagnosis

Mary Santangelo | 23 March 2010 |

tags: DSM-5, parenting, psychiatry

Worried parents should think first before exposing otherwise healthy adolescents to potent medications.

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