American Psychiatric Association

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Name: American Psychiatric Association
First reported May 24 2013 - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

What You Need to Know About the New DSM

In huge mental health news, the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) was released this week at the American Psychiatric Association’s Annual Meeting. Known as the authoritative guide for clinicians, the DSM-5 ... [Published Womens Health Mag - May 24 2013]
First reported May 24 2013 - Updated 14 hours ago - 2 reports

Can grief be a mental illness? With new diagnostic changes, maybe

Some of those rely on faith to help them through their grief. Others look to psychiatrists, who offer therapy or prescribe antidepressants to help ease the pain.On May 18, in a move that could add to the tension between religion and science, the American ... [Published Sun Herald - 14 hours ago]
First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

APA Clinician's Corner: Diagnosis with DSM-5 and the ICD

The APA Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP) offers monthly Clinician’s Corner workshops, which are held at the APA building (750 First St. NE, Washington, D.C.) and webcast live throughout the country. These three-hour workshops feature ... [Published American Psychological Association - 15 hours ago]
First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Approaching the DSM-5

With the passage of the DSM-5 today by the American Psychiatric Association, more ordinary and even extraordinary experiences of the human condition become psychopathology. This problem of a psychopathology then needs a solution: increasingly medication ... [Published Psychology Today - 16 hours ago]
First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

A world connected by addiction

Take a midday stroll through campus, resist the urge to pull out your phone, and do some people-watching. You will need all of your fingers and toes, and probably those of a friend to count the people you see navigating the pedestrian traffic with their ... [Published Santa Monica College Corsair - 18 hours ago]
First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Awareness of self, others key to mental health

Promoting good mental wellness has been a practice since the mid-19th century.The American psychiatrist Isaac Ray, one of the 13 founders of the American Psychiatric Association, said mental hygiene is an art to protect the mind against incidents and ... [Published Individual.com - 18 hours ago]
First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

APA Members Give DSM-5 Cautious Thumbs-Up

SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- Members of the American Psychiatric Association got their first look at DSM-5 at the association's annual meeting here this week and shared their reactions with MedPage Today. ... [Published MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for ph ... - 22 hours ago]
First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

How Much Exercise Does It Take to Fight Depression?

(iStockphoto)Writing prescriptions for exercise may be the future of depression treatment, says new paper.By  Mark Lebetkin , TheActiveTimes.comCan exercise literally be a prescription for lifting your mood?We’ve all read articles touting the mental health ... [Published Xfinity Comcast - 23 hours ago]
First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

WHO meeting highlights: mental health, bird flu, childbirth

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The 2013 World Health Assembly has sparked lively debate on a number of topics. This is where WHO budgets and policies for the coming year are approved, and where member nations’ conflicting points of view on health matters come ... [Published GenevaLunch - 23 hours ago]
First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

An illustration of the challenge low health literacy poses to outcomes (infographic)

One of the biggest challenges that healthcare professionals face is figuring out the level of health literacy their patients possess so they can convey information in a way that’s understandable to them. If they don’t, there is the strong possibility ... [Published MedCity News - May 24 2013]
First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

What The New DSM Has To Say About Sex Addiction

This week, with the release of the DSM-V, the latest edition of the psychiatric bible that defines and diagnoses mental-health disorders, experts thought we'd finally get some answers about who's just on the extreme end of the horny spectrum and who's ... [Published Huffington Post - May 24 2013]
First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

Lightlake Therapeutics Inc.??? Binge Eating Disorder Treatment Phase II Trial Results Presented at American Psychiatric Association 2013 Annual Meeting

Lightlake Therapeutics Inc. (OTCBB: LLTP) (the âCompanyâ, âWeâ or âLightlakeâ), a biopharmaceutical company developing addiction treatments based on its expertise in opioid antagonists, announced today that results of the Companyâs Phase II clinical trial ... [Published BioSpace - May 23 2013]

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"It's in the realm of the spiritual that we learn to accept the unanswerable questions," Cacciatore said. "People can get help without being labeled mentally ill. That's what churches are for, that's what community is for, that's what spiritual leaders are for."
...of the DSM-5 revisions will ripple throughout mental health care, from diagnosis to treatment to overall mental health services," said Jones. "These changes will affect the way professionals, and other stakeholders, define normal and abnormal when it comes to mental health."
...Oklahoma City, for several years now, and they've have been able to track, anecdotally, that it has decreased incidents of suicide," said Johnson. " And they're working with the life line to track how many people are calling that life line because they read that number on the lock. Creek Nation has a grant, too, as does the Kiowa Nation. So we're all kind of working together to strategically spread out our money for suicide prevention across Oklahoma and trying to work together so the messaging is consistent. So all over Oklahoma we're doing similar things, and we're engaging in the same kind of activities so that nobody is missed."
...In an overview of the DSM-V changes, the American Psychiatric Association offers a caveat to the section on sexual disorders: "Research suggests that sexual response is not always a linear, uniform process and that the distinction between certain phases (e g., desire and arousal) may be artificial." In other words: Even though you're reading a book that's designed to categorize and establish criteria for sexual disorders, aspects of sexuality don't...

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A world connected by addiction [Published Santa Monica College Corsair - 18 hours ago]
Awareness of self, others key to mental health [Published Individual.com - 18 hours ago]
APA Members Give DSM-5 Cautious Thumbs-Up [Published MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for ph ... - 22 hours ago]
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Releases Data concerni... [Published HighBeam Research - 23 hours ago]
How Much Exercise Does It Take to Fight Depress... [Published Xfinity Comcast - 23 hours ago]
WHO meeting highlights: mental health, bird flu... [Published GenevaLunch - 23 hours ago]
Peonies bloom, offering reminders of hope in mo... [Published STLtoday.com - 23 hours ago]
A Psychosis Caused By Our Immune System [Published Psychology Today - May 24 2013]
What You Need to Know About the New DSM [Published Womens Health Mag - May 24 2013]
An illustration of the challenge low health lit... [Published MedCity News - May 24 2013]
What The New DSM Has To Say About Sex Addiction [Published Huffington Post - May 24 2013]
Is Criticism Of DSM 5 'Antipsychiatry'? [Published Psychology Today - May 24 2013]
Untreated Depression Linked to Telomeres, Aging... [Published Psychology Today - May 24 2013]
APA forgetting spirituality [Published One News Now - May 24 2013]
Depression’s Exercise Rx [Published Prevention - May 24 2013]
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Stunner! Courtkills Kinsey sexed nationally [Published WorldNetDaily - May 24 2013]
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.: Are Alcoholism and Addi... [Published Huffington Post - May 23 2013]
Pamlab LLC: New Research Highlights Biological ... [Published BioSpace - May 23 2013]
Too Much or Too Little: DSM-Vâs Gray Area on Se... [Published New York Magazine - May 23 2013]
Lightlake Therapeutics Inc.??? Binge Eating Dis... [Published BioSpace - May 23 2013]
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Barbara Kay: Teaching children to hate the ex [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - May 23 2013]
The great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens was doubly traumatized in early youth by a feckless father and a harsh social system with scant appreciation for children’s tender psyches. Dickens’ soul-searing experience at age 12 in a shoe-blacking factory ...
DSM-5 and the Fight for the Heart of Psychiatry [Published Science-Based Medicine - May 22 2013]
The fifth edition of the Diagnostics and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) was recently released. This is the standard reference of mental disorders and psychiatric illnesses released by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). As with previous editions ...
Attention, everyone [Published Babbage - The Economist - May 22 2013]
AFTER nearly two decades, the new DSM has arrived. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is a 947-page guide to ailments of the mind. Published on May 22nd by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), it lists specific symptoms ...
The book of suffering [Published Babbage - The Economist - May 21 2013]
OUR correspondents discuss the controversy surrounding the latest diagnostic manual from the American Psychiatric Association   ...
Is Grief a Mental Illness? New Diagnostic Chang... [Published God's Politics Blog - May 21 2013]
Each year 90,000 parents in the U.S. confront the profound suffering that follows the death of a child or adolescent. Some of those rely on faith to help them through their grief. Others look to psychiatrists, who offer therapy or prescribe antidepressants ...
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Excessive video gaming recognised as addiction [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Feb 26 2013]
Time to End LGBT Conversion Quackery Scams [Published Rep. Jackie Speier - YouTube Channel - Nov 29 2012]
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Lightlake Therapeutics’ Binge Eating Disorder T... [Published Business Wire Science: Science News - May 23 2013]
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New Data Show Long-Term Benefit of Transcranial... [Published PR Newswire: Health - May 21 2013]
Lundbeck: Depressive Symptoms Are Frequent Duri... [Published Business Wire - May 21 2013]
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