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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
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.
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I'm not describing it any differently from how you're describing it. It keeps biases of individual doctors in check (as it should), but it does not keep in check the biases of the people who actually write it (which is my point).
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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.
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Would like to believe this is true, but have reason to believe that it isn't.