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To: Bigtigermike
Wowee....this guy chaired the task force that produced the fourth revision of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) and became critical of the current version, DSM-5.

But get this...He warned that the expanding boundary of psychiatry is causing a diagnostic inflation that is swallowing up normality and that the over-treatment of the "worried well" is distracting attention from the core mission of treating the more severely ill. In 2013, Frances said that "psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests".

I guess when it comes to Trump, he ignores his own beliefs.

47 posted on 08/25/2019 11:32:50 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: DoodleBob

I heard several of his lectures on this.

His motivation was to delay the DSM-5 as it stopped his royalties on DSM-4 sales.


75 posted on 08/25/2019 12:01:26 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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