Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision – June 1, 2000

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) Paperback – June 1, 2000

Author: American Psychiatric Association | Language: English | ISBN: 0890420254 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision – June 1, 2000
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• Paperback: 943 pages
• Publisher: American Psychiatric Association; 4th edition (June 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0890420254
• ISBN-13: 978-0890420256
• Product Dimensions: 2 x 6.2 x 10 inches
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The DSM is very clearly written and can be understood by anyone no matter what his or her educational level. It also contains an exceptional psychiatric glossary and an exceptional psychoanalytically oriented section describing the "defense mechanisms." The public is ambivalent about psychiatry but has embraced the DSM because it provides readers with the illusion that if you read this book you can diagnosis yourself and your acquaintances. What most mental health professional know is that this book is a political document as well as a scientific one. It advances the cause of the psychobioligists (over the environmentalists) and the alliance of drug companies, insurance companies and psychopharmacologists. What the sub-committees who wrote each section of the DSM have done is to organize the vast array of life problems that we have long thought of as "neurotic" (and stemming from early family experience) and placed them side by side with clearly biological diseases like schizophrenia and manic-depression. Why? The aim is to create the impression that all of the ordinary habitual problems in love and work that pretty much everyone agrees come from the way you were brought up in your family are in fact biological - and probably inherited - illnesses. Chronic unhappiness, for example, is coded with the "mood disorders" like classic manic depressive illness. Another facet of the DSM that is pernicisous is that each problem the patient has must be coded separately. There is no way to describe the patient in holistic terms. The patient as described by the DSM (and treated by the psychiatrist guided by this document) ends up looking something like a cubist painting by Picasso.

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