Критика ДСМ-5 набирает обороты
DSM-5 Critics Pump Up the Volume
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/DSM-5/31416
"In early February, British psychologists and psychiatrists unhappy with proposed changes in the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -- the DSM-5, in its forthcoming incarnation -- staged a successful press conference in London, which generated news coverage around the world.
Meanwhile, the most prominent U.S.-based critic of DSM-5, Allen Frances, MD -- chairman of the task force that developed the fourth DSM edition in 1994 -- has become a regular contributor to the popular Huffington Post website. Last week, he suggested there that the government should force the APA to abandon some of the proposed changes.
...The complaints have a common theme: that the DSM-5 will medicalize -- and therefore stigmatize -- normal human behaviors....
One British psychologist, referring to the DSM-5 as a whole, told the Guardian newspaper that its proposals "are likely to shrink the pool of normality to a puddle."
They also allege that, by expanding the number of people potentially qualifying for a psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5 will inevitably increase the number treated with drugs.
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Former New England Journal of Medicine editor Marcia Angell, MD, noted last year in the New York Review of Books that more than half of DSM-5 working group members had "significant industry interests."
Frances, too, has written that the DSM-5 will be a "bonanza for the pharmaceutical industry." But most of his criticisms, which he took public in 2009, have focused on the revision process..."
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/DSM-5/31416
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/DSM-5/31416
"In early February, British psychologists and psychiatrists unhappy with proposed changes in the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -- the DSM-5, in its forthcoming incarnation -- staged a successful press conference in London, which generated news coverage around the world.
Meanwhile, the most prominent U.S.-based critic of DSM-5, Allen Frances, MD -- chairman of the task force that developed the fourth DSM edition in 1994 -- has become a regular contributor to the popular Huffington Post website. Last week, he suggested there that the government should force the APA to abandon some of the proposed changes.
...The complaints have a common theme: that the DSM-5 will medicalize -- and therefore stigmatize -- normal human behaviors....
One British psychologist, referring to the DSM-5 as a whole, told the Guardian newspaper that its proposals "are likely to shrink the pool of normality to a puddle."
They also allege that, by expanding the number of people potentially qualifying for a psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5 will inevitably increase the number treated with drugs.
...
Former New England Journal of Medicine editor Marcia Angell, MD, noted last year in the New York Review of Books that more than half of DSM-5 working group members had "significant industry interests."
Frances, too, has written that the DSM-5 will be a "bonanza for the pharmaceutical industry." But most of his criticisms, which he took public in 2009, have focused on the revision process..."
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/DSM-5/31416