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Am I Okay?We all have times when we're feeling down, anxious, over the top, or on edge. Or times when we can't sleep, feel spaced out or disconnected from...Read More
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New York Review of Books, July 28, 2011
...in neuroscience research, but so far this research hasn?t produced much improvement in diagnosis and treatment. In fact, Allen Frances, the chairman of the task force that wrote the current version of the American Psychiatric Association?s Diagnostic and...
The Economist, June 12, 2011
...to nearly 900 pages. "It's very easy to set off a false epidemic in psychiatry," laments Allen Frances, the manual's current editor, who blames the textbook for inadvertently fuelling the boom in autism, attention-deficit disorder and the particularly...
Foster's Daily Democrat, June 8, 2011
...Citizen Award-Cassie Selfe \ Frances B. Bailey Scholarship-Christopher Garcia Frances B. Bailey Scholarship-Nicholas Olivares-Thompson Frances B. Bailey Scholarship-Jacob Allen Frances B. Bailey Scholarship-Katrina Bartoszak Frances B. Bailey...
Psychology Today, March 1, 2012
...the APA Board of Trusteeshttp://www.psychiatrictimes.com/dsm-5/content/article/10168/1565491 June 2010To the Membership of the APAhttp://www.psychiatrictimes.com/dsm-5/content/article/10168/1579837 Allen Frances, M.D., was chair of the DSM-IV Task Force...
MedPage Today, February 29, 2012
...Medpage Today » Specialty » Psychiatry » DSM-5 With crunch time looming for the ongoing revision of the psychiatry profession's diagnostic manual, critics hoping to stop what they see as destructive changes are taking their campaign to the consumer...
Psychology Today, February 27, 2012
...to Dr Strakowski and to the Society of Biological Psychiatry for their permission to reprint this edifying editorial. Allen Frances, M.D., was chair of the DSM-IV Task Force and is currently professor emeritus at Duke...
Psych Central, February 12, 2012
...is “better” or more legitimate? Nobody can tell, because nobody has access to the future. Oh. Except for Allen Frances, M.D. He has apparently left his position as a doctor and taken up residency as a psychic, because he told the U.K.’s...
Psychiatric Times, February 9, 2012
...Dr Pies is Editor in Chief Emeritus of Psychiatric Times and Professor in the psychiatry departments of SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston. He is the author, most recently, of Becoming a Mensch:...
things mean a lot, September 27, 2011
...there consequences?When Robert Spitzer stepped down as editor of DSM-III his position was taken by a psychiatrist named Allen Frances. He continued the Spitzer tradition of welcoming as many new mental disorders, with their corresponding checklists, into...
The Book Scout, July 11, 2011
...books: Getting Control and The Imp of the Mind , both by Lee Baer, and Your Mental Health by Allen Frances and Michael B. First. I also corresponded extensively with an OCD researcher/clinician, Kimberly A. Glazier of Yeshiva University, who reviewed...
