Invalidity: The Nature of Psychiatry

There’s an interesting post from Duncan Double, MD titled Why does the APA need new editions of DSM? Dr. Double is a psychiatrist and a member of the Critical Psychiatry Network. In his current article, Dr. Double expresses the hope that there won’t be a DSM-6, essentially on the grounds that none of the revisions up to this time has resulted in any increase in validity. So each revision, in effect, replaces an invalid old manual with an invalid new one. ...

June 25, 2013 · PhilHickeyPhD