 Lisa Jain Thompson Saturday, 10 May 2008 Washington, DC, USA. More than 120 researchers and clinicians with expertise in neuroscience, biology, genetics, statistics, epidemiology, public health, nursing, pediatrics and social work will form the work groups who will review scientific advances and research based information to develop the fifth edition of the APA Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V). So who did we get to chair the workgroup on sexual and gender identity disorders (GID) ???
Here come Kenneth J. Zucker and Ray Blanchard, two Ph.D’s who, despite the ongoing research in neurobiology, believe that Harry Benjamin Syndrome (fna GID/transsexuality) is a psychological problem (not a biological condition), one that can be treated with drugs and $150 an hour therapy talks. [cf. Download of the APA News Release below.]
Kenneth J. Zucker, Ph.D., from Toronto's Centre for Addictions and Mental Health (CAMH) believes in the unproven efficacy of reparative ( e.g., "ex-gay") therapy to "cure" gender-variant children. Ray Blanchard, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto has published scientifically unsound research purporting that HBS women are autogynephilic (that is, paraphilic fetishists who are
sexually aroused by the thought or image of themselves as women).
Unable to make HBS men and women see the benefits of having bodies that are incongruent with their brains, Zucker proposes that he can cure them of the “delusion” they have had since birth. Ray Blanchard, a man who is unable to understand why someone would not want a penis, attests that HBS women (male to female), like Narcissus, obsess over their reflected image, imagining themselves with a vagina and breasts rather than a penis like Ray has.
Clinicians are inclined to diagnose disorders that they feel more comfortable treating. If Zucker is uncomfortable with a male to female HBS... |
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 Daniel C. Vock Saturday, 10 May 2008 Washington, DC, USA. U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) endures a bruising charge from Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias (D). A new Utah law stirs Salt Lake City bartenders to create a new drink. The Ohio Attorney General must provide advice to himself on impeaching himself. A Pennsylvania state senator tries to solve the gay marriage dillemma by outlawing divorce. And Louisiana prison guards get outside help to prevent escapes. In case you missed those stories this week, Worth Noting fills you in.
You think just because he could be the next president of the United States that U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D) would have an easy time on the basketball court? Not in Alexi Giannoulias’ neighborh... |
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 TS-Si News Service Friday, 09 May 2008 Stanford, CA, USA. David Kingsley, PhD, strode from his office to his lab, pulled out a scale, and started in to weigh the pelvic bones from 114 pairs of manatee. The results of his efforts, published on 2006, were a highly suggestive discovery. He found that in almost every case, the left pelvic bone outweighed the right. This appeared to be trivial — the average left pelvic bone is 10 percent larger than its right-side partner — but it is a statistically significant variance that carries big weight in evolutionary significance.
Broadly stated, developmental biologists study how a single fertilized ovum can yield all the complexity of life, whether it be human or other animals, insects... |
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 Pamela M. Prah Friday, 09 May 2008 Washington, DC, USA. In the homestretch of an unprecedented presidential primary season, spinning with competing sound-bites and endless rhetoric, voters still heading to the polls in four states can’t look to their governors for any pre-election advice. These governors plan to wait until after their states vote to make their own endorsements.
Democratic governors in three of the five states yet to have their primaries are staying out of the fray and letting their voters decide on their own whether Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton should be the party’s nominee for the White House.
West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear and Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer all p... |
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 Louis Jacobson Thursday, 08 May 2008 Providence, RI, USA. Researchers have identified problems with applying the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID), reporting that fewer than half the patients previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder received a diagnosis based on a comprehensive, psychiatric diagnostic interview — the SCID. The study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry concludes that while recent reports indicate that there is a problem with underdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, an equal if not greater problem exists with overdiagnosis.
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Charlie bit my finger! Seem familiar? A little something on Mother's Day.
Video: courtesy of HSCYT. Time 00:56
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APA Names DSM-V Work Group Members: Experts to Revise Manual for Diagnosis of Mental Disorders. News Release No. 08-27. American Psychiatric Association (APA). May 1, 2008. [ Download PDF ]
The APA release has the names and personnel rosters for all of the working groups named so far (eff. 1 May 2008).
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