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Dear Readers,
The editors of Journal Watch Psychiatry are pleased to present the Psychiatry Top Stories of 2012. These stories were chosen by the editorial board, with an eye toward relevance to clinical practice. At Journal Watch Psychiatry, we cover many different areas of the field. With the coming changes in DSM-5, I suspect that diagnostic controversies and debates may generate new data and insights that could affect future clinical care.
For our editors, the task of choosing the best stories was difficult. We used a two-step voting process to determine our list. First, the editors looked at all 236 summaries published between November 16, 2011, and November 15, 2012. Each editor chose his or her favorite 20 stories and from these named …