Posted by laima on March 1, 2007, at 18:23:01
In reply to Re: DSM, posted by randermin on March 1, 2007, at 17:22:39
I think it's a work in progress, continually refined, and with lots of promise.
> Okay...
> The DSM is a deluded attempt from a (rightly) qualitative field to disguise itself as a hard
> science by organizing hopelessly vague and unfounded ideas into something with the appearance
> of empirical knowledge. Of course some of it is helpful as a field guide to those "big" conditions
> that are already validated by collective experience, but it's mostly misguided, arrogant,
> autocratically minded, misleading and useless if not harmful nonsense. It is really only here for aesthetic,
> self-validating purposes and has almost no value as a scientific or therapeutic text.
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