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Letter: Attitude adjustment

Published 28 May 2014

The view that psychiatry needs a reboot comes not from our own quarters, but from the practitioners themselves. Last year, Thomas Insel, director of the US National Institute of Mental Health, announced on his blog (bit.ly/ns-Insel) that the organisation “will be re-orienting its research away from DSM categories”.

Issue no. 2971 published 31 May 2014

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