Sex addiction: Science or pop fad?

Thirty-one years ago, when Patrick Carnes walked onto the Phil Donahue television show to promote his new book on sexual compulsivity as a...

Research roundup

The articles are flooding in at an alarming rate, threatening to bury me under yet another avalanche. Before I am completely submerged, let ...

DSM-5: Forensic applications (Part II of II)

Courts cling to DSM as "bible" As alluded to yesterday, in Part I , mental health professionals know not to take the DSM (or the I...

DSM-5: Much ado about nothing? (Part I of II)

Ambitious "paradigm shift" fizzles  By now, you've seen the bad press about the American Psychiatric Association's new dia...

Military sexual assault scandal unearths "illegal" psychiatric diagnoses

If you haven't been following the sexual assault scandals in the U.S. military, tune in: It’s yet another arena where bogus psychiatric ...

Training: Controversies in sexually violent predator evaluations

I am excited to announce that the American Psychology-Law Society has accepted a panel that I put together on " Emergent controversies...

APA rejects "hebephilia," last standing of three novel sexual disorders

To hear government experts on the witness stand in civil detention trials in recent months, the novel diagnosis of "hebephilia" wa...