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With the help of psychologists

A new issue the New School Psychology Bulletin is out. The latest issue of the Annual Review of Critical Psychology (ARCP) explores issues that emerge at the intersection of Marxist scholarship and psychological practice. The meaning of feeling: Joshua Soffer on banishing the homunculus from psychology. In his latest research Roy F. Baumeister has discovered surprising ways to improve willpower, including sipping lemonade. Joshua Greene studies the scientific basis for moral decision-making. Here is a psycho-­historical analysis of Adolf Hitler and the role of personality, psychopathology, and development. Psychologists now believe fledgling psychopaths can be identified as early as kindergarten — the hope is to teach these children empathy before it’s too late. Improving disorder classification, worldwide: With the help of psychologists, the next version of the International Classification of Diseases will have a more behavioral perspective. Psychiatry's "Bible" Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders gets an overhaul. The time has come for us to admit that psychiatric diagnosis is too important to be left exclusively in the hands of psychiatrists.