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Overhauling mental illness
May. 8th, 2012 12:38 pmFirst major overhaul of the "bible" of psychiatry in 30+ years...and the revision process is actually transparent for the first time; the psychiatric community is actually involved. "Crazy as fark" no longer a standard diagnosis.
(It's been many years since I first read about "On Being Sane in Insane Places" in my grad classes on participant observation research. Had forgotten. Need to read that whole thing, once I'm finished with some other reading today.)
Interesting that they ditched Asberger's Syndrome. This is good, since any time someone is a bit shy or socially inept, someone says "Asberger's!"...not every personality trait is a farkin' mental illness. It seems to me that it is much wiser to help people understand themselves than branding what they are as dysfunction.
(It's been many years since I first read about "On Being Sane in Insane Places" in my grad classes on participant observation research. Had forgotten. Need to read that whole thing, once I'm finished with some other reading today.)
Interesting that they ditched Asberger's Syndrome. This is good, since any time someone is a bit shy or socially inept, someone says "Asberger's!"...not every personality trait is a farkin' mental illness. It seems to me that it is much wiser to help people understand themselves than branding what they are as dysfunction.