By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN senior medical correspondent
(CNN) — When Jennifer Nicholas sees television shows or movies where characters “hook up” or have sex with “friends with benefits,” she cringes, because that’s how she got herpes.
“Getting an STD wasn’t even something that crossed my mind,” said Nicholas, 39, who learned that [...]
NEW YORK – The American Psychological Association declared Wednesday that mental health professionals should not tell gay clients they can become straight through therapy or other treatments.
Instead, the APA urged therapists to consider multiple options — that could range from celibacy to switching churches — for helping clients whose sexual orientation and religious faith conflict.
In [...]
A SYDNEY researcher has begun the first study of its kind on what are known as gender-variant children - boys who act like girls and girls who act like boys.
Sydney University doctoral student Elizabeth Riley is conducting an online survey, which will take in the views of families, health professionals and transgender people, and is [...]
Psychiatric bible to add new diagnoses: DSM makeover process shrouded in secrecy
by Karen Franklin, Ph.D.
October 15, 2008
It’s a tried-and-true formula:
Do a quick-and-dirty study or two. Find a huge, perhaps escalating, problem that has heretofore been overlooked. Create a product label (aka diagnosis). And, voila! The drug companies will take it from there. A diagnosis that [...]
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