[Yeti]

Are you aware of any criticisms or professional discussions that you could point me to? If it could be argued that it isn't necessarily all that definitive, I'd like to learn about that.

I don't know where to tell you to look, but I can offer you this tidbit -- one problem is that you often get multiple conflicting diagnoses for the same subject, based on the subject's symptoms and the criteria in the book.

[Freedom2specul8]

"I don't know where to tell you to look, but I can offer you this tidbit -- one problem is that you often get multiple conflicting diagnoses for the same subject, based on the subject's symptoms and the criteria in the book."

That is correct. I heard about some studies like that..done on prison inmates. Some inmates were supposedly NOT mentally ill but yet were diagnosed with an illness and visa versa. The little con artists... (not just the inmates either)

[The Other Harry]

I don't know where to tell you to look [about the DSM IV maual], but I can offer you this tidbit -- one problem is that you often get multiple conflicting diagnoses for the same subject, based on the subject's symptoms and the criteria in the book.

I've always kinda wondered how many people I could diagnose to have Tourette's Disorder. I'm certain I do.