S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH

October 14, 2020

The risk of “false positive” screening in primary care settings is reduced by a thorough clinical evaluation.

March 04, 2020

This review highlights an important diagnostic and therapeutic task: the importance of differentiating true bipolar disorder/obsessive-compulsive disorder comorbidity from BD with secondary OCD.

January 27, 2020

Early on, psychiatry accepted the idea that unconscious psychology affected the body to cause disease. By the 1970s, the rise of psychiatric drugs pushed the field in a biological direction, and by the 1980s, psychoanalysis was in full retreat, at least in the halls of psychiatric power. S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD, adds to the debate.

May 06, 2014

Is bipolar disorder overdiagnosed? Underdiagnosed? Neither? In this podcast, Dr S. Nassir Ghaemi offers his perspective on those questions.

December 19, 2013

"The main problem here is not that past DSM leaders were derelict or purely political. The problem is that they now say that they would place science below pragmatism," according to this clinician.

October 14, 2013

If science is defined as some kind of systematic study of observed experience applied to hypotheses or theories, and then confirmation or refutation of those hypotheses or theories, followed by new hypotheses or theories that are further tested and refined by new observations – if this is the core of any scientific inquiry, I think that no objective observer can attribute the history of DSM-III, IV, and 5 to anything that approximates this process.

July 18, 2013

This psychiatrist's wish is that in one more generation, our profession will learn to go beyond DSM to the truths of science.

April 12, 2013

All psychiatry, anywhere in the world, is American psychiatry. This is both good and bad.

January 23, 2013

Planck's Law of Generations: scientific change doesn't happen by changing minds, but by changing generations.

January 17, 2013

It is clear that the leadership of DSM-IV, and of DSM-III before it, views psychiatric diagnosis in the DSM system as something that should be based on “pragmatism.”