gr8tful1
February 9th, 2012, 08:54 PM
Shyness, gambling, childhood defiance could be labeled as illnesses by new diagnostic manual, critics complain
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46329572/ns/health/#.TzRzh8X2aSo
He said the new edition - known as DSM-5 - "will pathologise a wide range of problems which should never be thought of as mental illnesses."
Allen Frances, Emeritus professor at Duke University and chair of the committee that oversaw the previous DSM revision, said the proposed DSM-5 would "radically and recklessly expand the boundaries of psychiatry" and result in the "medicalisation of normality, individual difference, and criminality."
Will the DSM someday classify my faith as an illness?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46329572/ns/health/#.TzRzh8X2aSo
He said the new edition - known as DSM-5 - "will pathologise a wide range of problems which should never be thought of as mental illnesses."
Allen Frances, Emeritus professor at Duke University and chair of the committee that oversaw the previous DSM revision, said the proposed DSM-5 would "radically and recklessly expand the boundaries of psychiatry" and result in the "medicalisation of normality, individual difference, and criminality."
Will the DSM someday classify my faith as an illness?