tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post8861150530263109983..comments2024-03-28T21:30:33.665+02:00Comments on Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity: "The Book of Woe" - A critical look at the DSM-5Daas Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252904288544083215noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-70260766317273665882013-10-13T19:41:47.815+03:002013-10-13T19:41:47.815+03:00I am in agreement. See further discussion at http...I am in agreement. See further discussion at http://www.frumcounselor.com/2013/10/mental-illness-rules-of-game.html:<br /><br />"I have long maintained openly that the categories laid out in the DSM are made up and not very useful for actually helping the people who suffer from the disorders therein. The only part I disagree with above is that 'mental health professionals pretend that the disorders are real'..."Raffihttp://www.frumcounselor.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-51987120453957231922013-10-13T06:30:36.666+03:002013-10-13T06:30:36.666+03:00You could be Tom Insel, who is neither an antipsyc...You could be Tom Insel, who is neither an antipsychiatrist nor a Jesuit of any spatial orientation, who is, in fact, America’s psychiatrist in chief. “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades 22 ,” he told me, “it ain’t working. And when I look at the numbers— the number of suicides, number of disabilities, mortality data— it’s abysmal, and it’s not getting any better. All of the ways in which we’ve approached these illnesses, and with a lot of people working very hard, the outcomes we’ve got to point to are pretty bleak”— especially, he added, compared with the “extraordinary” progress in other fields, such as the 70 percent drop in mortality from cardiovascular disease since he went to medical school or the steep reductions in deaths from auto accidents and homicides. “There are some people for whom some of what we do is enormously helpful, ” he said. But even so, “we don’t know which treatments are working for which people.” And this litany of failure, he said, “gets us back to your interest in nosology. Maybe we just need to rethink this whole approach.” That’s what Pliny Earle said in 1886, and what Thomas Salmon said in 1917, and George Raines in 1951, and Robert Spitzer in 1978, and Steve Hyman in 2000: that without a working nosology, psychiatry is a failure, that the current nosology (whatever it is) is sadly lacking, that the profession needs a new paradigm<br /><br />Greenberg, Gary (2013-05-02). The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry (pp. 351-352). Penguin Group US. Kindle Edition. Latkenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-65395852453249759072013-10-13T00:38:07.666+03:002013-10-13T00:38:07.666+03:00A very interesting article. The involvement of Pha...A very interesting article. The involvement of Pharme and drug sales, shows there is some shochad - bribery which can blind even the greatest scientists. Ben MIkrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07122937371918515052noreply@blogger.com