I've found this list serve to be quite useful and hope
that everyone continues to participate while
respecting everyone's opinions.
The DSM is a tool to help clinicians complie with
insurance requirements and perhaps to describe the
field of mental health.
Bertie Mo
--- Larry Arnold <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> And if you believe all that you read in DSMIV a
> socio-political text not a
> dictionary or an encyclopedia, then you certainly
> are deluded, and I hope
> that there is a cure somewhere through the
> deconstruction of such bizarre
> deferential notions.
>
> The true unknown is how the pysciatric proffession
> got away with writing
> that crap in the first place.
>
> Larry
> >
> > bollocks! I am quite aware of the psychiatric
> literature Madame,
> > to the point that I will quite confidentally state
> that your statement
> > is 100% false. There is such a "Good deal of
> evidence" that THE
> > authoritative publication of diagnostic criterion
> -- the DSM --
> > continues to specify that ONLY SYMPTOMS should be
> the basis
> > on which so-called mental illness is determined.
> Do you homework
> > before you lecture me! I did a thorough
> investigation of all of the
> > DSM publications including the more recent
> DSM-IV-R and I can
> > tell you that in each of the Forwards to the
> publications, there is a
> > satement to the effect that: "the actual cause of
> the mental illness
> > is still unknown". They've been saying the same
> thing for over 50
> > years!
> >
> >
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