tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361358365193630538.post5265225964799734685..comments2024-03-20T19:17:02.285-07:00Comments on IN THE NEWS: New Scientist expose of psychiatry’s "civil war"Karen Franklin, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01032855743077403199noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361358365193630538.post-29685314849959857042009-12-18T02:55:56.705-08:002009-12-18T02:55:56.705-08:00Good post. My position on DSM-V is that I hope it ...Good post. My position on DSM-V is that I hope it turns out as bad as possible - so that psychiatrists around the world move beyond the dominance of DSM and starts to think hard about diagnosis and overdiagnosis.<br /><br />DSM-IV criteria are quite bad, but they're good enough that they're usable and hence they get used because it's too much work to do anything else. I hope that DSM-V ends up so terrible that people start rejecting it (there is no chance of it being better than DSM-IV, given what's happened so far.)Neuroskeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06647064768789308157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361358365193630538.post-46062018287685979532009-12-11T17:02:25.812-08:002009-12-11T17:02:25.812-08:00Thanks for a great blog post. I welcome the contr...Thanks for a great blog post. I welcome the controversy re: hebephilia and paraphilic coercive disorder, in that it draws attention to the spurious nature of the other so-called diagnoses. DSM's definition of a mental disorder is essentially: any significant problem of human living. And on that basis, they have built their lucrative, self-serving classification.<br /><br />I do disagree with the statement in the editorial that "it's hard to see who else stands to gain from the current exercise..." The APA and the pharmaceutical companies have been hand-in-glove in this business for decades. And any expansion of DSM is likely to benefit the pharmaceutical companies as well.<br /><br />Philip Hickey, PhD<br />http://behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03297758542486421516noreply@blogger.com