Health Psychology

Pacific University names Christiane Brems dean of its School of Professional Psychology

9 Feb 2012

Brems emerged from a national search following last summer's retirement of previous dean Michel Hersen. She will begin her tenure at Pacific on July 1.

New mental health manual is "dangerous" say experts

9 Feb 2012

LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of healthy people - including shy or defiant children, grieving relatives and people with fetishes - may be wrongly labeled mentally ill by a new international diagnostic manual, specialists said on Thursday. In a damning analysis of an upcoming revision of the influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), psychologists, psychiatrists and ...

Experts blast new mental health 'bible'

9 Feb 2012

Millions of healthy people - including shy or defiant children, grieving relatives and people with fetishes - may be wrongly labeled mentally ill by a new international diagnostic manual, specialists complained on Thursday.