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No wonder we call it psychobabble
Ah, yes - another chance to admit I’m a shrink and suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous insults from the broad brushes of “fellow” FReepers . . .
But, I’ll sally forth anyway, and try to say something informed about the serial DSM abominations, on the off-chance that someone out there, somehow, gives a flying whatever, or has even the slightest clue what the profession and its practice are really all about, or . . . nah. Forget it. Why bother.
Will be the means of “diagnosis” then forced “treatment”....
Seem to remember it was pretty common for dissidents to be diagnosed as mentally unstable and disappeared into treatment programs.....never to be heard from again.
Soviet union......
KYPD
bfl