The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the current name of an organization that originated in 1844 with the name Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane. Treatment of the insane presumably would be a worthy objective.  As stated on the website of APA, "Psychiatry Online": American Psychiatric Association practice guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations for the assessment and treatment of psychiatric disorders. Treatment of the insane, therefore, does still appear to be on the APA's agenda, 175 years after its founding.  In order to treat the insane, those suffering from psychiatric disorders, any given patient or class of patients must be accurately assessed, to formulate an effective course of treatment.  There's the rub. To accurately assess the psychiatric disorder of a patient or class of patients, it might be intuited to be desirable for those doing the...(Read Full Post)