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Psychopathology

Global mental health issues woefully overlooked

Health & Medicine

The United Nations has made it a goal to improve maternal and child health, but mental health issues around the world remain woefully overlooked.

A Psychiatrist’s Encounters with the Mind in Crisis

Changing the way the world goes mad

Health & Medicine

Mental disorders reclassified

Health & Medicine

Defining Normal After a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

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The DSM and Mental Health in America

This week, the American Psychiatric Association released the fifth edition of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual, known as the DSM-V. Known as psychiatry’s bible, the DSM provides mental health professionals with descriptions and diagnostic criteria for every recognized mental disorder.   The DSM has a storied past — the first edition of the Manual, published in 1952, […]

Addicted to the Internet? That May Soon Be a Psychological Disorder

Internet Use Disorder may soon be included in the revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders. According to the American Psychiatric Association, which is working on the  fifth  edition of the Manual, Internet Use Disorder will be included as a condition “recommended for further study.” Other  behaviors  also being considered for classification as disorders include hyper-sexual disorder, […]

Mental Health Not Getting Enough Attention From UN

Global Politics

Mental health advocates are upset that the UN is not focusing attention on mental health.

Ugandans with Mental Illness Learn to Fit In

Arts, Culture & Media

In developing countries, even when people with mental illness receive medical treatment, they often have trouble fitting in. A program in Uganda aims to change that by training people with mental illness to earn a livelihood. Joanne Silberner reports.

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Dr. Mark Vonnegut on his mental illness, medical career and famous name

Arts, Culture & Media

What is mental illness, and what causes it? Mark Vonnegut proposed all these possibilities in his 1975 bestseller ?The Eden Express.? But in his new book, Vonnegut’s views on his mental illness have changed slightly.

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