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John Z. Sadler, MD

Dr Sadler is the Daniel W. Foster, MD, Professor of Medical Ethics and a Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Sciences at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He is one of the founders of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry. Find his full bio here.

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Consequences of Population Drift

March 22, 2011 | DSM-5, Comorbidity In Psychiatry, Alcohol Abuse
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Writers of diagnostic criteria should consider their work and all its implications. What about adding a new disorder? What might that do to epidemiological capture? Depending on the characteristics of the diagnostic criteria set, many possibilities exist.

Worrying About Greed

January 14, 2011
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I’ve been deeply worried about corruption and greed in psychiatry for a long time. In reading the new book from Wendell Potter, formerly head of public relations at CIGNA, my worry has escalated into panic anxiety. Before discussing Potter’s work, let me review some of the widespread greed-related corruption of recent years.

Watch Out for “Loud” Symptoms

December 02, 2010 | DSM-5, Bipolar Disorder, Comorbidity In Psychiatry, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Munchausen Syndrome, Neuropsychiatry
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The doctor’s role is to go beyond the obvious and to detect subtle determinants. Good diagnosticians have been trained to look beneath the loud symptom and consider underlying factors.

Catching the Right Fish

October 08, 2010 | DSM-5, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Gender Disorders, Major Depressive Disorder
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Designers of descriptive diagnostic criteria for mental disorders face some of the same problems as fishermen. Fishermen, like nosologists, want to capture not just any fish but a particular kind. Fishermen deal with this problem in various ways.

Vice Squad

August 26, 2010 | DSM-5, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Addiction
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Are psychiatrists agents of the police or doctors who care for the sick? Thomas Szasz raised this question 50 years ago in his iconic “The Myth of Mental Illness.” Psychiatry has changed in the ensuing decades, but Szasz’ question is still relevant. Why?

DSM-5 in the Digital Age—Part 1

June 14, 2010 | Bipolar Disorder, Gender Disorders, Addiction, DSM-5
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Many have challenged the claim of the APA/DSM-5 Task Force that the current process is the most “open process in the history of the manual.” Few have actually provided an argument or evidence of why this might, or might not, be so. What has changed dramatically in the DSM process since DSM-IV in 1994, and even DSM-IV-TR in 2000, is the rise of Internet culture and the “blogosphere.” What does this have to do with DSM-5?

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