By Lauren LeBano, PsychCongress Network, May 23, 2013 Prejudices about individuals with mental illness play a role in many healthcare providers’ treatment decisions involving physical conditions, a randomized trial suggested. When providers of all types — even mental health professionals — were presented with hypothetical vignettes of patients with medical conditions such as obesity, the […]
By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner, May 23, 2013 A rising controversy over the DSM-5, the new edition of the so-called Bible of psychiatry, heated up to a flashpoint last weekend as the book was launched at the 166th annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Criticism of the new psychiatric manual has issued […]
By The Associated Press, in The Oregonian, May 15, 2013 In the new psychiatric manual of mental disorders, grief soon after a loved one’s death can be considered major depression. Extreme childhood temper tantrums get a fancy name. And certain “senior moments” are called “mild neurocognitive disorder.” Those changes are just some of the reasons […]
By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, March 11, 2013 Dr. Jon W. Draud, the medical director of psychiatric and addiction medicine at two Tennessee hospitals, pursues some eclectic passions. He’s bred sleek Basenji hunting dogs for show. And last summer, the Tennessee State Museum featured “African Art: The Collection of Jon Draud.” But the […]
By Amanda Gardner, U.S. News & World Report, Dec. 3, 2012 The long-awaited revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has been approved, bringing with it a series of revisions, additions and subtractions to the tome that is considered the Bible of psychiatry. The revision, announced Saturday, has been more than […]
By Sandra G. Boodman, for Kaiser Health News, March 12, 2012 This story was produced in collaboration with The Washington Post. Adriane Fugh-Berman was stunned by the question: Two graduate students who had no symptoms of mental illness wondered if she thought they should take a powerful schizophrenia drug each had been prescribed to treat […]
From the Oregonian, June 23, 1994 – not available elsewhere online. “A man just came in,” a frightened secretary told Dr. Elmore E. Duncan, “carrying a gun.” That June morning in 1985, the psychiatrist was in the hall, picking up his mail. “I think we’d better get out of here,” he said as, confused and […]
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