Thursday, July 30, 2009

Recent popular media

This week there was an excellent show on BBC Radio 4 in their Mind Changers series, hosted by Claudia Hammond on David Rosenhan's famous Pseudo-Patient Study reported in "Being Sane in Insane Places." It features interviews with his colleagues and discussion about the implications and validity of the experiment.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lny48

I see next week there is a Radio 4 show on DSM-V, which promises to be interesting.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kf117

While on the topic of Radio 4, it's worth mentioning that All in the Mind remains the best (and maybe only) radio show about mental health in either the USA or the UK.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qxx9

As the debate over the secrecy of the process of creating DSM-V heats up, Christopher Lane's recent piece in Slate, Bitterness, Compulsive Shopping, and Internet Addiction: The diagnostic madness of DSM-V, gives a quick summary.
http://slate.com/id/2223479/

If you search blogs and news for 'dsm-v' you'll find plenty of commentary. The Psychiatric Times blog has lots of helpful info.
http://psychiatrictimes.blogspot.com/