A couple of years ago on this blog, I told the story of Lula. Born in Russia, Lula was an adopted child who was demonstrating classic behavioral and emotional difficulties associated with prenatal ...

I hear it all the time now. “Oh, he has FASD.” Well, no he doesn’t, because there is no such thing. Confused? So are most people. In March of this year I posted a discussion of the new DSM-5 ...

The DSM manual consists of descriptions, symptoms, and other principles that help clinicians to diagnose and classify psychological disorders. Apart from the classification of content, DSM-5 also ...