Hrm. That is very interesting to me... Thanks for posting the link, I will check it out.

I'm not sure that it is *scientific* progress. It might be a useful therapy tool, but I don't think that carving up different kinds of mental disorders on the basis of phenomenology (subjective resports of experience) is terribly helpful...

I'm also wary of the kinds of inner causes that they are talking about. I have a feeling they mean something a little different from 'attention' and the like than the cognitive neuropsychologists mean...

I'm not sure how much it will change things. I don't think that the health insurance companies will provide reimbursements or bulk billing or whatever on the basis of those diagnostic categories. I imagine it will get a hammering (and be subsequently ignored) by scientific researchers even though it might be adopted as a tool for practicing clinician's.

But then maybe that is the point?

I guess part of it depends on what you mean by science. People seem to have this notion that sociology is less scientific than biology and that psychoanalysis is less scientific than neurobiology or cognitive psychology.

I'm not sure... I will certainly check out the link though, thanks for that.