… the forthcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the absolutely immense text packed with every imaginable psychological permutation.
Allen Frances, editor of an earlier DSMV, cautions against what some are calling psychosprawl:
The greatest problem in the past 15 years of psychiatry has been diagnostic inflation and the over-treatment of people who really don’t need it. This misallocates scarce resources away from those who do most desperately need and can most use our help. I fear DSM-5 because it threatens to further medicalize normality and spread psychiatry too thin.
September 28th, 2011 at 9:14PM
yes but good luck in stopping that juggernaut, the engineers of the DSM machine are starting to make scientologists seem reasonable
September 29th, 2011 at 7:01AM
Medicalizing normality or normalizing medicality?