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1. 13951
   Name: Masanori Aoyama on Aug 25, 2012

   Affiliation: Ayumi Counseling Room

   Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Psychologist

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2. 13952
   Name: Thomas Dunn on Aug 25, 2012

   Affiliation: University of Missouri, St. Louis

   Are you a mental health professional? : No, I am not a mental health professional

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3. 13953
   Name: Michelle Hobson on Aug 26, 2012

   Affiliation: University of Oklahoma

   Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, Other

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4. 13954
   Name: Cara Olson on Aug 28, 2012

   Affiliation: NASW

   Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Social Worker

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5. 13955
   Name: Kate Burke on Aug 28, 2012

   Affiliation: SUNY New Paltz

   Are you a mental health professional? : No, I am not a mental health professional

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6. 13956
   Name: Anonymous on Aug 28, 2012

   Affiliation: student

   Are you a mental health professional? : No, I am not a mental health professional

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7. 13957
   Name: Christopher M. Tucker on Aug 28, 2012

   Affiliation: UC-Berkeley, PhD. Candidate (Political Science)

   Are you a mental health professional? : No, I am not a mental health professional

   Comments: The failure to account for the profound post-9/11 socio-political-legal changes in the proposed DSM-V is a disastrous oversight, which will result in pathologizing "normal" responses to a new empirical reality that this DSM ontologically precludes, but confronts citizens/residents, esp. politically active & certain ethnicities (Muslims, illegal immigrants). Recently, a US judge ruled several prominent journalists, academics, activists had credible fears that the US might suspend all their constitutional rights and indefinitely detain them w/o charges or trial b/c of their expressive/research activities. Millions of innocent people are on Terrorist watch-lists, No-Fly lists, blacklists, etc. NSA whistleblowers claim the US is nearly an Orwellian, "turn-key totalitarian" state, monitoring & storing all American's communications, while FBI can secretly access anyone's most private records (i.e. medical, library). There's been an unprecedented repression & censorship of science & whistleblowers. US agents infiltrate, spy on large ethnic & political groups (e.g. Occupy). The FBI Inspector General documented widespread, systemic abuse of new "war on terror" powers. The US president has asserted his power to secretly order murder of US citizens secretly deemed a threat, anywhere in world. CIA agents admitted to plots to covertly discredit academics. According to UN, at least one US whistleblower has been subjected to torture & degrading mistreatment. Torture has been "normalized" and US psychologists & psychiatrists have participated. Both Bush & Obama administrations have claimed unprecedented power to suspend the 1st Amendment right to free speech & associations and treat citizens with legal status of an enemy, causing many to self-censor & cut off peaceful associations. There is an unprecedented "war on US whistleblowers," many of whom have suffered Gestapo-type retaliation, threats, catastrophic damage to careers, finances, social/family relations, emotional & psychological health. At minimum, Americans have received 100,000's of National Security Letters, legally gagging them from ever telling spouse (or therapist) that they facilitated a so-called "terrorist-related" investigation. The DSM has always been a powerful instrument that has institutionalized unspoken, biased assumptions about American state-society-individual relations, as much as it has when authoritatively distinguishing "normal/healthy" from "pathological/unhealthy" human behavior & thinking. Western mental health experts can objectively see the cruel abuse of biased psychological standards used by Chinese psychiatrists and judges to forcibly institutionalize, stigmatize, repress (& often torture/electro-shock) pro-democracy dissidents, who'd exhibited "insane" behavior of disseminating pamphlets, "conceptually chaotic" political beliefs. My argument is that the DSM-V's failure to account for the radical post-9/11 changes in US state-society relationship & constitutional order, significantly increases the statistical probability that American's normal responses to the new "war on terror" matrix will be misdiagnosed, and re-victimized/re-traumatized by the mental health expert they turned to for help coping with empirical phenomena that were unthinkable 10 years ago. Are the 100,000's on the No-Fly list, irrationally paranoid for suspecting they are always being watched? Is the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, Chris Hedges & his co-plaintiffs suffering delusions of persecution/grandiosity, paranoid schizophrenia for suing Pres. Obama because they fear they're research/reporting will result in them getting locked in a CIA dungeon without charges or trial? US Judge Katherine Forrest ruled these fears rational & credible. When employers, friends & family abort relations with the 100,000's of suspects on various watch-lists, out of fear they'll be accused or blacklisted, will the innocent victim's life-crises & fears, be reduced to a neurological disorder, requiring involuntary hospitalization? This petition rightly notes that proposed changes to the DSM-V risk labeling of sociopolitical deviance as mental disorders, but does not go far enough. According to my assessment of the DSM and preliminary research (e.g. informal interviews w/ US mental health professionals), the US mental health care paradigm is virtually guaranteed to re-traumatize, stigmatize & pathologize any patient genuinely suffering bonafide harms as collateral damage in the new "war on terror" that conceptualizes the fabric of American life & society as a "battlefield." Although there is a well-documented dark side of US political persecution, repression, blacklisting, even massive programs of horrific human experimentation (McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, MKULTRA,etc.) that destroyed countless innocent lives, induced countless suicides/deaths, to my knowledge, US mental health experts & the DSM have always presumed claims of malevolent persecution by the US government, as symptoms of mental illness, invalidating, discrediting & re-victimizing genuine victims, and concealing government abuse with pseudo-scientific authority of trusted professionals honoring their Hippocratic Oath. If the US mental health authorities don't account for the new techno-political-legal reality constituting American reality for the foreseeable future, they will increasingly look like agents of repression and pharmaceutical industry stooges. I'll be publishing an article on this subject in the near future

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8. 13958
   Name: Alessandro De Luca on Aug 29, 2012

   Affiliation: UFC

   Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, I am a Marriage and Family Therapist

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9. 13959
   Name: Rhonda Armon-Bent on Aug 30, 2012

   Affiliation: The Power of Change Inc.

   Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Mental Health Counselor

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10. 13960
    Name: C. Alan Reber on Aug 31, 2012

    Affiliation: Walden University

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, Other

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11. 13961
    Name: Ruth Garrett on Aug 31, 2012

    Affiliation: non statutory community addictions

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Mental Health Counselor

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12. 13962
    Name: Nikki Lacherza on Aug 31, 2012

    Affiliation: College of Saint Elizabeth Graduate Student

    Are you a mental health professional? : No, I am not a mental health professional

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13. 13963
    Name: Geoff Goodman, Ph.D. on Sep 2, 2012

    Affiliation: Long Island University

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Psychologist

    Comments: Wider input on the DSM 5 is necessary.

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14. 13964
    Name: Karen Woldsmit on Sep 2, 2012

    Affiliation: n/a

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Mental Health Counselor

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15. 13965
    Name: Elizabeth Katy Brant on Sep 4, 2012

    Affiliation: International Association of Humanistic Psychology

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Mental Health Counselor

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16. 13966
    Name: John Ritcheson on Sep 4, 2012

    Affiliation: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

    Are you a mental health professional? : No, I am not a mental health professional

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17. 13967
    Name: Kristen Zoroufchy on Sep 4, 2012

    Affiliation: umsl

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, Other

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18. 13968
    Name: James Morley on Sep 6, 2012

    Affiliation: Ramapo College of New Jersey

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Psychologist

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19. 13969
    Name: Ruth Parnas, PsyD on Sep 6, 2012

    Affiliation: Licensed Psychologist, member FPA

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Psychologist

    Comments: I agree with the contents of this petition

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20. 13970
    Name: Debra Bennett on Sep 7, 2012

    Affiliation: nasw

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Social Worker

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21. 13971
    Name: Anonymous on Sep 9, 2012

    Affiliation: concerned citizen

    Are you a mental health professional? : No, I am not a mental health professional

    Comments: The DSM V should be relegated to the circular file along with all earlier editions of the DSM. Man is a spirit. Stop drugging them.

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22. 13972
    Name: Anita Boss on Sep 9, 2012

    Affiliation: independent practice

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Psychologist

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23. 13973
    Name: Atsuko Inamoto on Sep 10, 2012

    Affiliation: patient

    Are you a mental health professional? : No, I am not a mental health professional

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24. 13974
    Name: Christopher Michaels on Sep 10, 2012

    Affiliation: New Mexico State University

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, Other

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25. 13975
    Name: Anonymous on Sep 11, 2012

    Affiliation: advocate

    Are you a mental health professional? : No, I am not a mental health professional

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26. 13976
    Name: Christine Shelton on Sep 11, 2012

    Affiliation: USC Aiken Graduate Student

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, Other

    Comments: As a graduate student in clinical psychology, the new DSM revisions will greatly impact my future practice. Therefore, I have a stake in ensuring that the revisions are as helpful to me and to my future clientele as possible.

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27. 13977
    Name: Doreen Coles on Sep 11, 2012

    Affiliation: Parent

    Are you a mental health professional? : No, I am not a mental health professional

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28. 13978
    Name: Will Radford on Sep 11, 2012

    Affiliation: nasw

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Social Worker

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29. 13979
    Name: Emily Ashford Anderson on Sep 12, 2012

    Affiliation: Capilano University

    Are you a mental health professional? : No, I am not a mental health professional

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30. 13980
    Name: Boinski Pierre-yves on Sep 12, 2012

    Affiliation: CMPP Maubeuge

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Psychologist

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31. 13981
    Name: Stephanie Shelburne on Sep 12, 2012

    Affiliation: APA

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, Other

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32. 13982
    Name: Rebecca Pastor on Sep 12, 2012

    Affiliation: University of Missouri-St. Louis

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, Other

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33. 13983
    Name: Anonymous on Sep 12, 2012

    Affiliation: KU Leuven

    Are you a mental health professional? : No, I am not a mental health professional

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34. 13984
    Name: Vanessa Scotto on Sep 13, 2012

    Affiliation: American Acupuncture Council

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, Other

    Comments: I have my masters degree in counseling psychology .

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35. 13985
    Name: Diane Perry-Adler on Sep 13, 2012

    Affiliation: Licensed Psychological Practitioner

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Psychologist

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36. 13986
    Name: Jonathan Bell on Sep 13, 2012

    Affiliation: George Mason University

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Social Worker

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37. 13987
    Name: Manon Lemieux on Sep 14, 2012

    Affiliation: Bachelor in psychoeducation

    Are you a mental health professional? : No, I am not a mental health professional

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38. 13988
    Name: Karin Siebenmorgen on Sep 14, 2012

    Affiliation: student

    Are you a mental health professional? : No, I am not a mental health professional

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39. 13989
    Name: Dennis Friedel, MA, LPCS on Sep 14, 2012

    Affiliation: Meet You Where You Are Counseling

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Mental Health Counselor

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40. 13990
    Name: Guy Dean Bateman on Sep 15, 2012

    Affiliation: American Psychological Association, Association for Huminsitic Psychology, Association for Transpersonal Psychology, Montana Psychological Association

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Psychologist

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41. 13991
    Name: Walter WAYNE Cannefax on Sep 15, 2012

    Affiliation: Certified Behavioral Health Technician

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, Other

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42. 13992
    Name: Sharon Robinson- Rosenberg on Sep 16, 2012

    Affiliation: medical student

    Are you a mental health professional? : No, I am not a mental health professional

    Comments: I am bereft of my eldest child as of three months ago, and I don't like the US government I'm sane.

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43. 13993
    Name: Karen Daughtrey-Liebchen on Sep 17, 2012

    Affiliation: Westfield State University student

    Are you a mental health professional? : No, I am not a mental health professional

    Comments: I have my reservations but points of the professionals are well taken.

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44. 13994
    Name: Jesse J. Harris on Sep 18, 2012

    Affiliation: NASW

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Social Worker

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45. 13995
    Name: Anonymous on Sep 20, 2012

    Affiliation: none

    Are you a mental health professional? :

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46. 13996
    Name: Mary on Sep 20, 2012

    Affiliation: none

    Are you a mental health professional? : No, I am not a mental health professional

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47. 13997
    Name: Sonia Vicente Petreñas on Sep 21, 2012

    Affiliation: Gestalt, Shiatsu & Craneosacral Therapist

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, Other

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48. 13998
    Name: Anonymous on Sep 21, 2012

    Affiliation: student

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Psychologist

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49. 13999
    Name: Russell John Wilson on Sep 22, 2012

    Affiliation: Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse Trust, New Zealand

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Psychologist

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50. 14000
    Name: Russell John Wilson on Sep 22, 2012

    Affiliation: Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse Trust, New Zealand

    Are you a mental health professional? : Yes, a Psychologist

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