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Application Portability Architecture

APA

Abbr. for “American Plywood Association.”

APA

(All Points Addressable) An array of items (bits, bytes, pixels, cells, etc.) whereby each item can be individually manipulated.

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He is board certified in psychiatry and internal medicine, is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and is a Distinguished Senior Scientist of the Madison Institute of Medicine.

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These divisions were dramatized in October of 2005, when APA president Levant and American Psychiatric Association president Dr.

Collective unconscionable: how psychologists, the most liberal of professionals, abetted bush's torture policy

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The Massachusetts Psychiatric Society is a member organization of the American Psychiatric Association.

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2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Community Care Behavioral Health Organization will receive a 2013 Gold Achievement Award from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) at its 65[sup.

Community Care to Receive Gold Achievement Award From the American Psychiatric Association

The survey elicited responses from 17% of all North American residents in the American Psychiatric Association database, a response rate low enough to raise selection bias as a potential concern, Dr.

Many psychiatry residents face stress, career change

National Institute of Mental Health science track symposia, lectures, press conferences at the American Psychiatric Association 161st Annual Meeting.

Mark Your Calendars, APA Annual Meeting, May 3-8, 2008

Quick reference to the American Psychiatric Association practice guidelines for the treatment of psychiatric disorders; compendium 2006.

Quick Reference to the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders: Compendium 2006

The American Psychiatric Association uses the following definitions:

After same-sex "marriage" comes polygamy, and then ...?

The American Psychiatric Association defines it as a disease called "pedophilia.

Sins of the fathers: is child molestation a sickness or a crime?

And the visual material on wheels supposedly designed to break the resistance of patients and fiendish devices for restraint comes from the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London and the archives of the American Psychiatric Association in Wash ington.

Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modem Madness: The Eberbach Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849

According to a recent news story, "road rage" is a psychiatric disorder that deserves to be recognized and added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, the sacred canon of the American Psychiatric Association.

Making Us Crazy: DSM, the Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders