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cbayer

(146,218 posts)

3. If anything, the American Psychiatric Association has more to financially lose than gain

Reply to orpupilofnature57 (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 08:27 PM

Jan 2012

by this kind of redefinition.

As the government and insurance companies generally only pay for treatment of disorders that are coded in the DSM, the tighter the definition, the less patients are going to qualify for it.

So, I don't think that money is driving this one.