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DSM-5

29 Aug Beyond the DSM

Posted at 14:48h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Speaking Engagements 2 Comments

“What we need is more facilities where people can walk in and say 'Hey, I'm feeling really down today. Can I just be here for a while and see what could be a contribution to me and make me feel better?' I think this is true for most people but...

21 Aug What Do 1984, Brave New World and the DSM-5 Have in Common?

Posted at 21:46h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Psychology of Becoming 3 Comments

Thanks to APA symposium (“Beyond the DSM: Current Trends in Devising New Diagnostic Alternatives”) discussant Sarah Kamens for bringing to our attention a chilling essay reviewing the DSM-5. Author Sam Kriss “reviews” the book as if it were a dystopian novel like 1984 and Brave New World. The essay appeared...

16 Aug The Seduction of Bad Ideas

Posted at 20:17h in DSM-5, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 1 Comment

I've been rereading my Psychology Today columns since I began writing them over two years ago. It's something I'm doing while I'm finishing up writing a chapter on psychology for my online book, The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better...

09 Jul The Diagnostic Debate

Posted at 16:03h in Community Organizing, Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments

I haven’t attended the American Psychological Association convention in about ten years. But I couldn’t turn down an invitation to speak on a symposium on alternatives to diagnosis. And so, I’ll be traveling to Toronto in a few weeks for this year’s convention. The session, organized by SUNY New Paltz psychology...

03 Jun What’s the Point of Being Critical?

Posted at 18:57h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Publications, Social Therapy, What's New 2 Comments

I just got word that a new book to which I contributed is hot off the presses. It’s titled Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice. Editor Del Loewenthal, Professor of Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Roehampton in the UK, has done an impressive job of bringing...

14 Jan “Lay” People and Emotional Distress

Posted at 14:00h in Community Organizing, DSM-5, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy 0 Comments

For the past several years, the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy (Institute) and the Social Therapy Group have held forums and conducted surveys on the streets of New York City on mental health topics. We’ve been working on analyzing the data from nearly 300 surveys conducted...

01 Dec Playing with Hard Stuff…more on Japan

Posted at 21:19h in Community Organizing, DSM-5, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

For some more on my trip to Japan, please read my Psychology Today column, "The Grand Prix of Hallucinations" In this community, people don't try to silence the voices they hear or keep them to themselves. They socialize them, study them, play with them, and gain the courage to live joyously. ...

17 Sep People Speak Out About Diagnosis

Posted at 19:50h in Community Organizing, DSM-5, Psychology of Becoming 2 Comments

I posted a Psychology Today A Conceptual Revolution column yesterday, “Do You Need a Diagnosis to Get Some Help?” There I shared an overview of what happened when a team of volunteers from the East Side Institute and Social Therapy Group conducted a survey on diagnosis at Harlem Week, a...

28 Aug A Diagnostic Alternative You Might Not Have Thought Possible

Posted at 15:44h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, DSM-5, Education, Events, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Theatre, What's New 0 Comments

Three weeks ago I was in Washington, DC for the First Summit on Diagnostic Alternatives. It marked what I think is an important turning point for what has been a loud outcry against the DSM-5. The Summit was sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Psychology, which has been a...

02 Aug We Need To Be More/Other Than Critical

Posted at 17:30h in Community Organizing, Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Popular Posts, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 1 Comment

I few months ago I was invited to write a chapter for a book being published on the topic of critical psychotherapy, counseling and psychoanalysis. I’ve begun working on it this week and am at that early stage in writing (for me) where something is emerging, but I don’t know...