The latest American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which has been released after 7 years of constant analysis and work, seems to have disappointed many, with some experts stressing that the latest release is like a proof of the “discipline’s floundering writ”.
In the new manual, some have managed to find quite a number of flaws, which look like the subject has lost its way in a dense forest of hardly verified diagnoses and medications which are poorly ineffectual.
Patients who go in to look for a diagnosis of mood disorders, based on this manual, there are chances that they might end up being diagnosed with a condition which does not even exist to begin with, and be treated with a medicine which is no more effective than a placebo.
Despite that there are some serious disappointments in the DSM-V, it is not all that bad. It has managed to put the huge jumble of developmental syndromes for children into a single group of “autism spectrum disorders”, which makes more sense.
Jason Ramsey
topnews.us
