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Originally Posted by Leah123
That's a massive generalization. Too broad to really discuss fairly I believe. My own experience of using a diagnosis in DSM has been empowering and useful. Not pefect, but it's led to concrete improvements in my life. I don't happen to use any medications and none were recommended to me during my diagnosis-specific treatment.
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True, but the above quotes from insiders are suggesting that such a generalization
is appropriate. Here's a few more:
“DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific document…DSM-IV has become a bible and a money making bestseller—its major failings notwithstanding.”
—Loren Mosher, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
“We can manufacture enough diagnostic labels of normal variability of mood and thought that we can continually supply medication to you…But when it comes to manufacturing disease, nobody does it like psychiatry.” —Dr. Stefan Kruszewski, Harvard trained Pennsylvania psychiatrist, 2004
“I believe, until the public and psychiatry itself see that DSM labels are not only useless as medical ‘diagnoses’ but also have the potential to do great harm—particularly when they are used as means to deny individual freedoms, or as weapons by psychiatrists acting as hired guns for the legal system.” —Dr. Sydney Walker III, psychiatrist