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Jackpine Radical

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18. Medications have their uses. This thread isn't about trashing meds, but

Reply to LadyHawkAZ (Reply #17)

Tue Mar 27, 2012, 11:22 PM

Mar 2012

about the profiteering and politics that drive so much of what should be a rational and evidence-based classification enterprise. It isn't the meds themselves but the way they interact with the profit motives of the various players to produce distorted health care practices that is of concern here. The DSM is deeply entangled in this whole system, and will be a disaster when and if it arrives in anything like its currently proposed shape.

A lot of people are threatening to go to ICD-10 if DSM retains its problems.

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Occupy the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-5 protests) [View all] Jackpine Radical Mar 2012 OP

Oppositional Defiant Disorder jberryhill Mar 2012 #1

Occupying Defiant Disorder? Jackpine Radical Mar 2012 #2

Dealing with Oppositional Defiant Disorder is not pretty meow2u3 Mar 2012 #7

Reminds me of a bloated bellicose radio host who arthritisR_US Mar 2012 #8

Given the context of this thread do we really need to go around medicalizing political foes? (nt) Posteritatis Mar 2012 #16

I would think that lack of an appropriate grief reaction would be more of a mental illness. nt Still Blue in PDX Mar 2012 #3

'grief as a mental disorder'?!? bart95 Mar 2012 #4

Exactly. Jackpine Radical Mar 2012 #5

psychiatry has a notorious and dishonorable record in it's classifications bart95 Mar 2012 #6

Isn't that what the Commies did in the old Soviet Union? meow2u3 Mar 2012 #9

This press release is obviously over-simplifying the issue maximusveritas Mar 2012 #11

The point remains that the proposed expansion of various mental disorder classifications is enormous Jackpine Radical Mar 2012 #12

this reminds me of my psychology class in the eighties newspeak Mar 2012 #14

It's getting much worse. Jackpine Radical Mar 2012 #15

Enshrining new classifications is the first step to marketing new pills. Joe Shlabotnik Mar 2012 #10

Yes. And most--MOST--of the psychiatrists on the DSM committee have ties Jackpine Radical Mar 2012 #13

Having spent 30 years being put through the mental-illness wringer: LadyHawkAZ Mar 2012 #17

Medications have their uses. This thread isn't about trashing meds, but Jackpine Radical Mar 2012 #18