One year after its initial deadline, the 5th Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM-5, is due out in May, 2013. Published by the American Psychiatric Association, it is, in the APA’s words the: standard classification of mental… Continue Reading
Americans are used to being the butt of jokes for Europeans. They mock our weight, our tendency to be mono-lingual, our lack of awareness of international affairs, our swiftness to call a lawyer to sue. “Let them laugh,” we think.… Continue Reading
The pieces on pediatric bipolar will be written by my daughter, Rhona, a science writer who has played a seminal role in the blog since its birth. (That’s lucky for me, as, frankly, I still don’t know what that “html” tab does.)… Continue Reading
Each subsequent publication of the DSM has gotten progressively larger. We can only imagine what sort of tote bag we’ll need for the upcoming DSM-5. Now, this doesn’t bother me for its own sake, really. I don’t go on family… Continue Reading
Some parts of life can be so simple. Take high school math. You had two intersecting lines, and, to be fancy, you called them ‘axes.’ To sound real mathematically sophisticated, you didn’t just call them ‘this axis’ and ‘that axis.’… Continue Reading
Your clergy, your doctor–and your portfolio manager. Sounds like it has the makings for a cleaned-up version of an ethnic joke, I know, but it isn’t that. Instead, ask yourself: Who are the people in whom you want to have complete… Continue Reading
You cry into your pillow silently at night, reaching across to that empty expanse of the bed where, for 30 years, you’d always felt your partner’s hand reaching, in turn, for yours. Sleep eludes you due to the pain, and… Continue Reading
It’s a little-known fact, even to the seminar graduates, that, before the powers that be let a mother actually give birth to her child, she and her partner have to attend a weekend seminar (and there are no exceptions here) in some hazy, nebulous… Continue Reading
