[News of the Week] Psychiatry: APA Seeks to Overhaul Personality Disorder Diagnoses A work group of the American Psychiatric Association is proposing revisions for personality disorders in the forthcoming fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , often referred to as psychiatry's bible. Author: Constance Holden
[News Focus] Psychiatry: Anything But Child's Play An alternative to juvenile bipolar disorder and a reorganization of autism-related disorders are among the controversial changes proposed for the fifth edition of psychiatrists' bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders . Author: Greg Miller
[News of the Week] Psychiatry: Experts Map the Terrain of Mood Disorders Authors of the latest revision of psychiatry's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-V ) are debating whether the relationship between anxiety and depression is so close that they should be subsumed into a supercategory of human hopelessness, fear, and existential angst. Author: Constance Holden
NCC To Start Construction of a Forensic Psychiatry Unit Outside Stockholm STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: NCC Construction Sweden will begin construction of a forensic psychiatry unit in Huddinge outside Stockholm during March 2010. The customer is Locum, and the assignment, which was disclosed to the market in April 2008, has an established order value of SEK 540 million. The contract with Locum takes the form of a cooperative agreement, which means that the parties will cooperate throughout all phases of the project. Since planning and system de