"Coerced" is what I once believed, now I'm not sure if that's accurate any more.
Those who would have needed to be coerced are likely no longer in positions to have a say.
Their replacements are the true believers an organization hires or moves up to best carry out its mission. The altered DSM is a symptom of a greater problem.
The progressives have been peeing in the educational punch bowl for a very long time.
The 60s radicals protesting a government sending them "to die in Vietnam" didn't go away, they stayed for grad school. Then, they became professors, teachers and administrators. Now, they're not just out in the open, they're in charge.
What else explains why things went down hill so fast, why junk science that was once laughed at and ridiculed is now called "settled science accepted by a majority of scientists" and why our once highly revered institutions, beliefs, values and traditions are mocked and ridiculed in a suddenly upside down, bad is good world?
What else explains how a 90% self-identified Christian nation that put Ïn God We Trust" on its currency and "one nation under God" in its Pledge of Allegiance, quickly morphed into a people who legalized human sacrifice to the god of convenience, choose to twice be lead and represented by a man from the party that tried three times to remove God from its party and is now a maybe 50% self-identified Christian nation hostile to Christianity and a Judeo-Christian belief system?
The virus they are infecting us with is very fast acting if properly incubated in a susceptible victim with a systemically weakened immune system. That's US.
Time to pray. Seriously. It's the only antidote to keep this thing from progressing until it's terminal.
Here’s a good backgrounder on how the Pink Mafia forced the APA to change the DSM:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/204/81-Words
It’s worth listening to and sharing. Ignore the liberal origins, it tells the story pretty faithfully and openly. It will be obvious that it wasn’t a scientific, but a political/emotional decision.