[DBeers]

I would suggest the APA necessarily must redefine their faulty assessment.

Logic requires it as the APA must necessarily premise what it defines as the norm to be what the norm observed actually is...

The APA needs to get out of the business of attempting to redefine normality with moral relative reasoning without premise in observation and instead get back to the basics of psychology, that of objectively observing and categorizing individual human behavior in relation to all human behavior and or categorizing individual human behavior in regards to whether it is self-destructive versus innocuous in relation to the individual, others, or society as a whole...

Otherwise psychology is but the practice of a humanist religion versus a "scientific" endeavor...

[Lucky Dog]

I would suggest the APA necessarily must redefine their faulty assessment… Otherwise psychology is but the practice of a humanist religion versus a "scientific" endeavor...

I can not disagree philosophically. However, practically speaking, we must deal must deal with the world as we find it, not as we wish it were, or “should be.” Therefore, my assessment remains:

To remain germane to the current societal discussion, I fear you will have to modify your view or convince others such as the APA to modify theirs.