Shorter: The Backlash Against the New DSM-5

Shorter: The Backlash Against the New DSM-5

ViestiKirjoittaja Psykopatologia » 14.08.2014 14:27

The Backlash Against the New DSM-5 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how ... -new-dsm-5
Published on February 8, 2014 by Edward Shorter, Ph.D. in How Everyone Became Depressed

The Backlash Against the New DSM-5

DSM-5, launched in May 2013, has been the object of blowtorch treatment.

The backlash has begun. DSM-5, scarcely launched in May 2013 at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association,
has been the object of blowtorch treatment in the current Acta Psychiatric Scandinavica, which, despite its regional-sounding
title, is one of the premier psychiatry journals of the world.

Jose De Leon, a psychiatrist of Spanish origin at the University of Kentucky, confidently – and I think correctly – writes,
“The DSM-5 is a dead end for the historical process initiated in 1980 with the publication of the DSM-3.”

There are a lot of reasons why one might consider DSM-5 a dead end. One is its perpetuation of such diagnoses as
“schizophrenia” and “bipolar disorder” that do not in fact correspond to natural disease entities. I have blogged
about this before and recently wrote an article on the history of the DSM series that emphasizes this point.
(Shorter, 2013) http://historypsychiatry.com/2013/07/30 ... sychiatry/ (?)
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Re: Shorter: The Backlash Against the New DSM-5

ViestiKirjoittaja Psykopatologia » 14.08.2014 18:32

http://historypsychiatry.com/2013/07/30 ... sychiatry/

New article by Edward Shorter:
“An Alternative, History-Based, Nosology for Psychiatry”

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On the omission of PTSD from the nosology: Traumatic neurosis was first described in the late 19th century,
and belongs among the classic “nervous complaints.” Patients who have experienced severe trauma, in wartime
or otherwise, may indeed become symptomatic, but that their symptoms (“the full diagnostic criteria” in DSM
terms) first occur after some unspecified duration — which is the essence of “post” — is not at all clear.
The whole diagnosis resulted from a systematic campaign of the Vietnam veterans in the late 1970s, and
as a political construct PTSD has little place in a scientific classification of disease.
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