Posted by Caedmon on May 16, 2006, at 18:52:46
In reply to big deal » Caedmon, posted by pseudoname on May 15, 2006, at 23:58:44
> Have I offended you in some way? This is the second post by me in two weeks to which your response has been, “I don't see what the big deal is.”>
No - what I meant by that was, I don't see the "big deal" on the part of creators, about creating an alternate diagnostic manual. I don't understand why the clinicians who created the PDM (sic?) felt that what they were doing was all that unique, or why they felt it would contribute to their field in some way. I got the impression that it's just as arbitrary as the DSM. So it's not really that unique, hence not a "big deal". Hope that makes sense.
> > They *weren't* necessarily designed as methods to diagnose disorders
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> That is exactly what they were explicitly designed to do. Their additional use in research (which was a secondary intention) couldn't possibly change that. How would research using such criteria ever be clinically applicable if practitioners weren't also using them?>That wasn't my understanding. Maybe I read something wrong at some point.
- Chris
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