As a patient advocate for mental health reform I want to alert readers and mental health consumers to the recent action by the American Psychiatric Association to use trademark and intellectual property rights to unfairly repress and censor individuals and the concerned public from being informed and engaged in the process of revising the current Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM5).
Inasmuch as this manual is used to diagnose and assign a psychiatric diagnoses label to citizens seeking mental health care and for the purpose of complying with federal and state insurance laws, and inasmuch as this process affects mental health policy and the amount and use of scarce public and private mental health resources, this process needs to be totally transparent and open to the public.
If you agree, please contact the Wisconsin Council on Mental Health and/or your local branch of Wisconsin’s National Alliance on Mental Health.
For more information Google DSM5/Psychology Today, or follow this issue on my blog: danecountyalmanac.blogspot. com.
William R. Benedict, Madison
DSM revision
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