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News
Sparky Selected to Serve as the Collaborating Investigator for DSM-V Field Trials
10/07/2011
The fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V), to be published in May 2013, is one of the most important psychiatric research studies of this decade. Sparky has been asked to serve as the collaborating investigator for DSM-V field trials and he will put forward six recommendations.
Sparky will propose:
- That Family Psychopathology should be a mental illness.
- The new diagnosis of existential despair, which may or may not have nihilism as a component.
- The diagnosis of Toxic Aged.
- The diagnostic category of Health Rejecting Complainer.
- A diagnosis of Parental Alienation Syndrome.
- The non-pathological existence of polyamory.
Learn more about the DSM-V field trials here.
Articles
Searching for the Gentle Man
American Academy of Psychotherapy, VOICES
Summer 2011
Utilizing Media as Poetry, Music, Imagery, and Symbolic Objects in Group Therapy
American Psychological Association, The Group Psychologist
07/2011
Group Therapy Field Trips
American Psychological Association, The Group Psychologist
04/2011
The Co-Therapist Model in Groups
American Psychological Association, The Group Psychologist, Group Psychotherapy Column
11/2010
Archive
Sparky Featured in Takoma Voice
11/30/2008
Sparky on the war brought home: “Can I see another’s woe?”Read more›
Press Release: Sparky Prepares a Free Online Course
08/18/2008
After two decades of working as a Mind Doc, Sparky is now developing an online, multi-media course for mental health professionals just starting out in the field. Read more›
