American Psychiatric Association

The World Psychiatric Association has come out against conversion therapy—a long discredited and widely condemned practice that won't go away.

• By Kate Wheeling

How do I explain an existence dominated by the bleakest, darkest moods? And do I even want to?

• By Jenny Diski

Of kinks, crimes, and kinds: A look behind the scenes at how the American Psychiatric Association's Paraphilias Sub-Work Group proposed revisions to the DSM for all manner of things relating to sexual arousal brought about by atypical objects, situations, or individuals.

• By Alice Dreger

Psychiatry is under attack for not being scientific enough, but the real problem is its blindness to culture. When it comes to mental illness, we wear the disorders that come off the rack.

• By Ethan Watters

What does it mean that the American Psychiatric Association is switching from Roman numerals to Arabic? And will the critics ever be won over?

• By Sharon Begley