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DSM and Diagnostic Validity
Jaspers’ overall philosophy of psychiatry ties into many key issues in current psychiatry, like criticism of overuse of medications or the correctness of our diagnoses. I’m going to focus on the latter issue briefly, in relation to the DSM...
Thinking in and about Psychiatry: Unconscious Worldviews and Karl Jaspers
Thinking in and about psychiatry
Now let’s get to the theme of thinking.
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When I was a residen...
The moral radium of the universe
A month ago, I gave the commencement address to the graduating senior residents of the Yale psychiatry residency class. In the next few posts, I’ll publish edited parts of the address.
The end of the beginning
The Psychiatry Letter is a...
Another Psychiatric Giant Gone: Jules Angst
In early May, about a month ago, we lost another giant of 20th-century psychiatry: Jules Angst. Based in Zurich, he was a Swiss psychiatrist who was an essential leader in understanding mood illnesses.
He trained at the famous Burghölzli H...
Dispatches from the 2026 San Francisco APA annual meeting – DSM Future or DSM Past?
As described in my prior post, a unique feature of this year’s APA annual meeting was that a number of symposia were presented by members of the “DSM Future” scientific committee. One representative symposium included presentations by four...
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