Knowledge Is Necessity

From Dec last year ... An encounter I had in a market last week affords a textbook example of how to handle a stranger obviously dealing w...

From this time of year, last year. Still highly relevant ... A couple of nights ago, I felt myself slide into what I call my Augustine of ...

I'm working on a complete overhaul of mcmanweb . Being self-employed, my prick of a boss wants it done right now, no excuses, but my gen...

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the place Not a thought was racing, not even a trace; The meds were all stashed, in the ...

My second (first here ) idiosyncratic installment in looking back on how 2010 unfolded: Old Movie of the Year: Groundhog Day Updating th...

This is the time of the year for looking back, a la Time Magazine and CNN. Following is the first installment in my personal (and highly idi...

The story so far: The DSM-5, due out in 2013, will be the same old book in new covers. The exception is personality disorders , which gets a...

Yesterday , we inspected the house-cleaning performed by the DSM-5 workgroup charged with bringing order to personality disorder. Unlike the...

The story so far: In the one thing those charged with the DSM-5 did right, personality disorders will receive a major overhaul. Five of th...

In my last piece, Let's Play Spot the Personality Disorder , I posted a quiz asking readers to match the four DSM-IV Cluster B personali...