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Thursday, May 2. 2013

Why Psychiatry's DSM is a bunch of baloney

As an MD Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, I agree entirely with the sentiments of Gary Greenberg.


I do not have time to go into it now, but I tend to think that the whole thing is a pseudo-medical charade, designed for the drug industry and for the insurance industry's convenience.


If "mental health" cannot be defined, how can you draw lines to define "mental illness"? You can, at the extremes, but otherwise you can't. Everybody is a little nuts.



Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss at 18:07 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Certainly true. If 'normal' can be defined, then there would, no doubt, be only one normal person in the world.

We are 'all the myriad ways' kind of crazy.

Fair Winds,

Cap'n Jan
#1 Cap'n Jan on 2013-05-02 20:11 (Reply)
Frankly, I think being a little crazy "helps you make it through the night."
#2 jma on 2013-05-02 20:31 (Reply)
Relax. Don't worry about it. You're all figments of my imagination, anyhow.
#3 Ralph Thayer of New London on 2013-05-02 21:34 (Reply)
That the DSM was "not scientific but a product of unscrupulous politics and bureaucracy” was apparent in 1973.
#4 ErisGuy on 2013-05-03 09:02 (Reply)

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