Coverage of some recent violent attacks on female patients in mental health facilities in Milwaukee County in the U.S., prompted… Read more Gender and the History of Integrated Wards
Category: Discussion
A MOMENT OF CRISIS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN PSYCHIATRY
N.B. The DSM currently being constructed is referred to in this article both as DSM-V and DSM-5. The APA at… Read more A MOMENT OF CRISIS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN PSYCHIATRY
Mass Media Depictions of Mental Illness
PsychCentral has a pithy piece by Margarita Tartakovsky that discusses some of the common stereotypes found in mass media representations… Read more Mass Media Depictions of Mental Illness
The History of Health Insurance and Mental Illness
The successful passage of health insurance reform legislation in the United States moves me to wonder about the extent to… Read more The History of Health Insurance and Mental Illness
DSM-V: Continuing the Confusion about Aging, Alzheimer’s and Dementia
Since the early twentieth century, when Alois Alzheimer and Emil Kraepelin constructed it as a unified clinical-pathological entity, Alzheimer’s disease… Read more DSM-V: Continuing the Confusion about Aging, Alzheimer’s and Dementia
