Well, as I guess everybody knows by now, Dr. Insel has changed his mind. On April 29, he stated that the weakness of DSM “…is its lack of validity.” He went on to express the view that his agency, NIMH, (the US government’s mental health research arm) “…cannot succeed if we use DSM categories…” You… Continue Reading
The Empire Strikes Back: APA Responds to NIMH
BACKGROUND On May 3, 2013, David Kupfer MD (DSM-5 Task Force Chair) responded to Thomas Insel’s April 29th unequivocal attack on the validity and usefulness of DSM. You can see Dr. Kupfer’s response here. Essentially Dr. Insel said that the categories set out in the DSM did not correspond to anything in the real world,… Continue Reading