Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Be wary of the American Psychiatric Association

Be wary of the American Psychiatric Association


The American Psychiatric Association (from which I resigned in protest, some time ago) is at it again—making up, then retracting, new diagnoses that their committees generate and debate.  It's as if those committees have some sort of microscope trained on humanity, identifying new pathologies and yelling, “Voila!  We have found another illness!  Behold the mind malady on the slide!”

In this case, while preparing to publish its big seller (and huge profit center), the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V (DSM-V)—organized psychiatry’s compendium of known psychiatric illnesses—the powers that be at the APA have decided to remove from its latest revision of the manual a few diagnoses they thought they would include:  “attenuated psychosis syndrome” and “mixed anxiety depressive disorder.” They are, however, sticking with their notion of jettisoning from the DSM-V, the diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome, while picking up one they call, “Autism Spectrum Disorder.”

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TONY DIGIROLAMO- THAT'S GOOD KEITH ... THIS PSCIENCE I SPEAK OF IS COMING TO GREATER AWARENESS DAY AFTER DAY.
The truth is on its way.

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