Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Anything you put in that book, any little change you make, has huge implications not only for psychiatry but for pharmaceutical marketing, research, for the legal system, for who’s considered to be normal or not, for who’s considered disabled. And it has huge implications for stigma, because the more disorders you put in, the more people get labels, and the higher the risk that some get inappropriate treatment.
- Dr. Michael First
www.columbiapsychiatry.org
www.dsmivtr.org
http://dsm5.org
Spot on.
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