(August 31, 2019 at 9:08 pm)wyzas Wrote:(August 31, 2019 at 9:05 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Yes, authority. Dictionaries are descriptive, whereas the DSM is prescriptive; they literally create the definitions lol.
We're not making a medical diagnosis. Stop changing the goal post. The term phobia existed long before the DSM 5.
The DSM IV was clearer on this:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK51...e/ch3.t11/