Inside the auditorium
Saturday, February 4, 2012
DSM 5
DSM – 100 words
Peter Tyrer
DSM is an American classification system that has dominated since 1980. It is disliked by many for reducing diagnostic skills to a cold list of operational criteria, yet embraced by researchers believing that it represents the first whiff of sense in an area of primitive dogma. It has almost foundered by confusing reliability with validity but the authors seem to recognise its errors and are hoping for rebirth in its 5th revision due in May 2013. The initials do not stand for Diagnosis as a Source of Money or Diagnosis for Simple Minds but the possibility of confusion is present.
(From British Journal of Psychiatry,Jan.,2012)
Peter Tyrer
DSM is an American classification system that has dominated since 1980. It is disliked by many for reducing diagnostic skills to a cold list of operational criteria, yet embraced by researchers believing that it represents the first whiff of sense in an area of primitive dogma. It has almost foundered by confusing reliability with validity but the authors seem to recognise its errors and are hoping for rebirth in its 5th revision due in May 2013. The initials do not stand for Diagnosis as a Source of Money or Diagnosis for Simple Minds but the possibility of confusion is present.
(From British Journal of Psychiatry,Jan.,2012)
DNB Gold Medal
Dear Friends,
I received Dr. Sarada Menon Gold Medal in Psychiatry at 17th convocation of Diplomate of National Board which held in Siri Fort Auditorium, Delhi on 1.2.2012 in the gracious presence of Mrs. Meera Kumar, Hon'ble Speaker Lok Sabha and Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, Hon'ble Health Minister, GOI
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