Mental health clinicians need a new way classify personality disorders. A more scientific and practical method of categorizing disorders could improve treatment, says a new analysis.
The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) scheduled to come out in 2013, could be a complete train wreck due to inclusion of virtually every personality type as some spectrum of disorder. What is needed is some sanity because the DSM is considered "The Bible" of the U.S. mental health industry and is used by insurance companies as the basis for treatment approval and payment.
In the wake of blackouts across Italy in 2003 and that same year in the US northeast, two recent studies caused
a Congress that has usually been preoccupied with important things like a law that will limit TV commercial volume to berate the energy industry because a military analyst worried that an attack on a small, unimportant part of the U.S. power grid might, like dominoes, bring the whole grid down.
Astronomers are certainly not strangers to manipulating public relations through mass media - they write reasonable papers and then encourage the press to go nuts with it. Witness
the recent arXiv paper by Vogt, Butler, et al on Gliese 581g, should it even exist, which reads
