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Thread #150714   Message #3512763
Posted By: Songwronger
07-May-13 - 06:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: The NIMH Withdraws Support for DSM-5
Subject: RE: BS: The NIMH Withdraws Support for DSM-5
Dr. Allen Frances is the man who, in 1994, headed up the project to write the latest edition of the psychiatric bible, the DSM-IV. This tome defines and labels and describes every official mental disorder. The DSM-IV eventually listed 297 of them.

Long after the DSM-IV had been put into print, Dr. Frances talked to Wired's Greenberg and said the following:

"There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it."

Finally, at the end of the Wired interview, Frances flew off into a bizarre fantasy:

"Diagnosis [as spelled out in the DSM-IV] is part of the magic...you know those medieval maps? In the places where they didn't know what was going on, they wrote 'Dragons live here'...we have a dragon's world here. But you wouldn't want to be without the map."

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/05/the-lying-liars-who-lie-about-psychiatry.html