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Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis: How Perspectives and Politics Replace Science in Mental Health
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Studies show that people who see mental illness as biological or genetic are less likely to blame mental conditions on weak character or to respond in punitive ways, but they are more likely to see a person’s illness as out of her control, alienating, and dangerous.
Rachel Aviv • Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
But there is a catch. The boundaries demarcating the different disorders are ever so much fuzzier in real life than they appear to be on paper. There is really nothing magical or preordained about any of the DSM thresholds—shades of gray exist between their seemingly black and white cutoff points. Requiring five symptoms and two weeks for major dep
... See moreAllen Frances • Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
