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Title: Experts to Revise Manual for Diagnosis of Mental Disorders
Post by: Kate Thomas on May 08, 2008, 03:43:36 AM

APA News Release (http://www.psych.org/MainMenu/Newsroom/NewsReleases/2008NewsReleases/dsmwg.aspx)

ARLINGTON, Va. (May 1, 2008) – The American Psychiatric Association (APA) today
announced the members of the work groups who will review scientific advances and researchbased
information to develop the fifth edition of APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders (DSM-V). The work group members are composed of more than 120 worldrenowned
scientific researchers and clinicians with expertise in neuroscience, biology, genetics,
statistics, epidemiology, public health, nursing, pediatrics and social work.
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Kenneth J. Zucker, Ph.D.
(Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Chair)
Head, Gender Identity Service, Child, Youth, and Family Program
Psychologist-in-Chief
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Can You say Reparative Therapy?



Drop the Barbie:

Ken Zucker's reparatist treatment of gender-variant children

A report by Lynn Conway

April 5, 2007

(http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/News/Drop%20the%20Barbie.htm)