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Jul 05, 2015, 07:41 PM
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Member Since: Feb 2015
Location: US
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Originally Posted by Leah123
I'm not sure about the "horrors" of the DSM, again it seems like such an oversimplification. It's not perfect and it's had some downright neanderthal thinking in it, but it's helped me a lot, again, ambiguous. I do know others have been harmed by it. Books like that develop too. Once the world was flat, then round, and there was science in that decision- not all science leads to correct conclusions, but that doesn't mean I'd want to throw out baby with bathwater. (The earth is an imperfect oblate spheroid.) I like to think that in most human endeavors including therapy/psychology, we're evolving, like when homosexuality was removed from the DSM 40+ years ago. I don't imagine anything created by humans is likely to be flawless, nor even excellent, but that there are many many committed, thoughtful, scientific and artistic minded people working in that direction.
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My sense, from my own reading, is that the bulk of Psychiatry and its bible the DSM is fraud and quackery and social engineering and marketing for the drug companies.
"Don't buy it, don't use it, don't teach it. Theres nothing official about it. [about DSM-V]" -- Dr Allen Francis, Chair of the DSM-IV committee, and one of the most powerful psychiatrists in the country according to the NY Times
""There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bulls**t. I mean, you just can't define it." -- Dr Allen Francis, Chair of the DSM-IV committee, and one of the most powerful psychiatrists in the country according to the NY Times
“The ostensible validity of the DSM is reinforced by psychiatry’s claim that mental illnesses are brain diseases—a claim supposedly based on recent discoveries in neuroscience, made possible by imaging techniques for diagnosis and pharmacological agents for treatment. This is not true. There are no objective diagnostic tests to confirm or disconfirm the diagnosis of depression; the diagnosis can and must be made solely on the basis of the patient’s appearance and behavior and the reports of others about his behavior.” -- Thomas Szasz, Psychiatrist
“The problem with psychiatric diagnoses is not that they are meaningless, but that they may be, and often are, swung as semantic blackjacks: cracking the subject’s dignity and respectability destroys him just as effectively as cracking his skull. The difference is that the man who wields a blackjack is recognized by everyone as a thug, but one who wields a psychiatric diagnosis is not.” -- Thomas Szasz, Psychiatrist
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