RE: Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support
June 2, 2012 at 1:04 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2012 at 2:12 pm by King_Charles.)
Also hate to be bigging up my own country over America, but hey it is the Jubilee, and The British Psychological Society are a lot more on the ball than their American counterpart, In my humble opinion: "
http://apps.bps.org.uk/_publicationfiles...sponse.pdf
I know... my argument is that the update is just pushing things further in the wrong direction....
BPA Wrote:The Society is concerned that clients and the general public are negatively affected by the continued and continuous medicalisation of"
their natural and normal responses to their experiences; responses which undoubtedly have distressing consequences which demand
helping responses, but which do not reflect illnesses so much as normal individual variation....
The putative diagnoses presented in DSM-V are clearly based largely on social norms, with 'symptoms' that all rely on subjective
judgements, with little confirmatory physical 'signs' or evidence of biological causation. The criteria are not value-free, but rather reflect
current normative social expectations. Many researchers have pointed out that psychiatric diagnoses are plagued by problems of
reliability, validity, prognostic value, and co-morbidity.
http://apps.bps.org.uk/_publicationfiles...sponse.pdf
I know... my argument is that the update is just pushing things further in the wrong direction....
"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky