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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