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How the Public is Being Misinformed about Grief
“Have the psychiatrists gone mad? — those who weren’t crazy to begin with! They want to turn grief into a disease!” This might well be the attitude of many in the general public, having read the misleading news coverage of a debate over the DSM-5 — the still-preliminary diagnostic classification of mental disorders, often referred [...]
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Grief is not a disease, but cancer is -- what about erectile dysfunction?
"Understanding peoples' attitudes about whether states of being should be considered diseases can inform social discourse regarding a number of contentious social and health public policy issues," says Kari Tikkinen, MD, PhD, corres... Read Post
ABC’s Analysis on Women Voters Leans Right and Just a Little Bit Sexist
This latest article from ABC’s Matt Negrin not only misinforms, but it’s misleading and misogynistic, until the piece turns to women pollsters for answers. Generally, according to research by Democrats, unmarried women care more abo... Read Post
Is Grief A Disease?
Leeat Granek and Meghan O'Rourke argue against reclassifying it as such in the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM): A group of psychiatrists have spearheaded a movement to include ongoing grief as a disor... Read Post