Friday, May 17, 2013

On the Mixed Reviews of the DSM-5

5/17/13. We think we know the ingredients for psychiatric disorders --- but even this is in doubt. We for sure do not know the recipes or biological etiologies for any psychiatric disorder.

The DSM was created as a method to create reliability among clinicians and researchers --- but the validity of mental maladies has been sacrificed. The DSM was supposed to spark research to make valid categories of mental illness. Spark --- it hasn't.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323398204578487051642125668.html?mod=rss_mobile_uber_feed

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