Actually ADHD | Medication Strategies & Clinical Wisdom
Sep 4, 2026 · 34 min · 15 segments
Jonathan Murphy, PMHNP-BC, opens the DSM-5-TR and works the Lindsay Clancy case the way a clinician actually works a differential, starting with the forensic cautionary statement at the front of the…
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But in a similar sense, if we're going to be collectively speculating about the mental ability to do something willfully or not, we got to understand the DSM-5.
So yesterday I went through and I underlined the most important and significant things, but I wanted to go through it.
And the DSM-5, what people need to understand is it's an important billing and piece of bureaucratic information, but for clinical consideration, which is why this book is designed for The clinical care of patients is a starting point and it's a really, really good one.
And any mental health clinician or novice in the field can probably think back to writing these criteria one, criteria two.
But the reality is we get a read on people and we develop skills that extend far beyond this.
Then we can, if we're so inclined to add to the next edition and Reddington, during the trial, heard there's been a lot of disparaging of the mental health field because of this.
But in a similar sense, if we're going to be collectively speculating about the mental ability to do something willfully or not, we got to understand the DSM-5.
So yesterday I went through and I underlined the most important and significant things, but I wanted to go through it.
And the DSM-5, what people need to understand is it's an important billing and piece of bureaucratic information, but for clinical consideration, which is why this book is designed for The clinical care of patients is a starting point and it's a really, really good one.
And any mental health clinician or novice in the field can probably think back to writing these criteria one, criteria two.
But the reality is we get a read on people and we develop skills that extend far beyond this.
Then we can, if we're so inclined to add to the next edition and Reddington, during the trial, heard there's been a lot of disparaging of the mental health field because of this.
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