PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Mental Disorder, Psych, Binge Eating Disorder
15 Jan 2014
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Not helpful in determining which conditions should be considered mental disorders or not, who is sick or not! An excessive proportion of people have come to rely on antidepressants, antipsychotics, anti anxiety agents, sleeping pills and pain meds - 1 out of every 5 u. s adults uses at lease one drug for psychiatric problems! We still don"t have laboratory tests to determine the presence of a mental disorder! Continues weaknesses of earlier editions, not working toward scienti c classi cation! Psychiatric knowledge not advanced enough for revision to dsm-iv! Creates new mental disorders to bene t psychiatry and drug industry! Lowers threshold for several diagnoses, medicalizing normal reactions! Shares all the shortcomings of previous versions! Sales of the dsm are the biggest income for the apa! Criticized that they did it simply to boost sales! Removal of bereavement exclusion from major depression - dsm-4 said if the.
