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NYT > American Psychiatric Association
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News about the American Psychiatric Association, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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Break Up the Psychiatric Monopoly
 The time has come for us to admit that psychiatric diagnosis is too important to be left exclusively in the hands of psychiatrists.
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D.S.M. Panel Backs Down on Diagnoses
In a rare step, doctors revising psychiatry’s diagnostic manual have retreated from two controversial proposals that would have expanded the number of people identified as having psychotic or depressive disorders.
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I Had Asperger Syndrome. Briefly.
 Asperger syndrome was the wrong diagnosis for me. I was really just an awkward teenager.
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Asperger’s History of Overdiagnosis
People with social disabilities are not necessarily autistic, and giving them diagnoses on the autism spectrum often does a real disservice.
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The D.S.M.’s Troubled Revision
The debate over the new manual of mental disorders misses one thing: the diagnoses are only convenient categories.
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