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Originally Posted by Mathgod
Agreed. How does that in any way contradict what I said before?
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Because by setting a criteria that must be met it actually removes power from the doctor and the book itself, ultimately the only thing that counts is the behaviour of the patient.
You are suggesting that the DSM has the power to diagnose people who are not ill due to bias in psychiatry, the manual is literally a safe guard against bias, it can be challenged in a way an individual diagnoses can't be.
When the manual comes out doctors and advocates pour over it, at times challenging indicators or their definition, causing revisions and reprints, it is why we are at the DSM 5 and not just the DSM. it quite literally allows the whole world to have a say which is why homosexuality, that used to be considered a paraphiliac disorder in the original DSM is no longer mentioned at all in edition 5, it wasnt because doctors suddenly decided being gay wasnt a sign of mental illness, it was because society decided being gay was ok