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News about the American Psychiatric Association, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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Disorder Out of Chaos
 Considering autism is a condition that runs along a spectrum, there is a scientific case for dropping the misleading diagnosis of Asperger’s.
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The Short Life of a Diagnosis
 Asperger syndrome and autism should be thoroughly tested before being lumped together in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
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Psychiatrists Revise the Book of Human Troubles
Psychiatrists are working on the fifth edition of a manual that is both medical guidebook and cultural institution.
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Psychiatric Group Faces Scrutiny Over Drug Industry Ties
Probing into the financial relationship between drug companies and psychiatrists, senators are demanding that the American Psychiatric Association give an accounting of its financing.
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LETTERS; Doctors, Research and Drug Payments
Four letters on undereporting of income doctors' make from drug companies (June 8 article, June 10 editorial); writers are Robert M Berdahl (Assn of American Universities), Darrell G Kirch (Assn of American Medical Colleges), Nada Stotland (American Psychiatric Assn), Diane Goldstein Temkin and Susan Resko; drawing
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