The DSM isn’t a Bible, DSM editor

Posted on by disenchantedscholar

http://reason.com/blog/2012/08/10/dsm-editor-says-mental-disorders-most-ce

Last year, I was surprised to see Allen Frances, who headed the panel that produced the current edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, tell Gary Greenberg: “There is no definition of a mental disorder. It’s bullshit. I mean, you just can’t define it.” This week Frances surprised me again, declaring in his contribution to a Cato Unbounddebate about psychiatric coercion that “mental disorders most certainly are not diseases.” Rather, he says, they are “constructs” that may justify treating people against their will as “a last resort.” Go here for my response. But start with Jeffrey Schaler’s opening essay, where he lays out the Szaszian position on mental illness, which Frances, the lead editor of psychiatry’s bible, says he basically agrees with, although “Schaler and Szasz go way too far in their total rejection of any need ever for involuntary treatment.”

Next week University of Maryland law professor Amanda Pustilnik will contribute an essay, after which there will be a continuing exchange. I am eager to see Schaler respond to Frances and to see Frances elaborate on his position, which contradicts the standard line, promoted by psychiatrists, drug companies, and government officials, that mental illnesses are brain diseases….

The DSM is a political invoice.

Transsexual got taken off because SJWs screamed about it, same with homosexuality. I’m sure if borderline and histrionic personalities lobbied, they could get it removed too. Cos that fixes all of their problems. It’s all made up in a room full of people who are pushing the boundaries on what they can charge for.

If you have doubts as to the direction of this political bias;

https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-123204233/pathological-bias-being-considered-for-dsm-v-some

In addition to racism, pathological bias might include sexism and heterosexism, and might be included in DSM-V as either a symptom or a full-blown disorder.

We could’ve got the tumblr SJWs committed on their pathological hatred of normal white men.

Beauty has become a hate crime

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http://didactsreach.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/beauty-and-freedom.html

to see it, to think of it, to feel it, to judge it, to parse it

…There is no discussion of it because by convincing the public that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the Left has placed it beyond the realm of discussion. According to the Left, beauty is a matter of taste, and arbitrary taste at that. There is no discussion of taste because to give reasons to prefer tasteful to tasteless things is elitist, nasty, uncouth and inappropriate. To have taste implies that some cultures produce more works of art and better than others, and this raises the uncomfortable possibility that love of beauty is Eurocentric, or even racist. To admire beauty has become a hate crime.…

Syphon off the blood supplies to the beast

When the societal split comes, they can live among their primitive ‘art’ in a hut and we can live in the Roman columned-mansions. Personally, I prefer the Greek style, but w/e.

Why men cheat

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http://theadventurouswriter.com/blog/learning-why-men-cheat-from-marriage-counselor-gary-neuman/

…Women think if they appreciate their partners or husbands too much, the men will stop doing wonderful or helpful things around the house or in the relationship. It’s just the opposite, says Neuman. Here’s more marriage advice from Neuman: the more you appreciate your husband, the more he’ll want to please you…

Some men are ungrateful and use any old excuse but if he wasn’t like that before you married him (when you should’ve selected him out) that’s what alimony is actually for (protecting you and your children from his mistresses and bastards). Sexual fidelity goes both ways if you read the marriage vow.

Madness as Moral Metaphor

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http://www.henrydampier.com/2015/04/unhappy-mad-soft-moderns/

…What Thomas Szasz uncovered was that mental illnesses are better understood as metaphors for moral illness than as conventional illnesses like cancer and appendicitis. As progressives change the moral structure of society, the quasi-scientific notions of what is healthy and what is ill must also change….

That link includes this;

…Properly speaking, contends Szasz, insanity is not a disease with origins to be excavated, but a behavior with meanings to be decoded. Social existence is a rule-governed game-playing ritual in which the mad person bends the rules and exploits the loopholes. Since the mad person is engaged in social performances that obey certain expectations so as to defy others, the pertinent questions are not about the origins, but about the conventions, of insanity.…

That’s a very nurture-based way of looking at it, the PC lot should be delighted. Alas, that allots them responsibility for their actions, and the refutes the rationale behind claiming mental illness – absolving personal responsibility, the way others used to do with sins.

This idea washes with what I’ve witnessed.

Back to HD;

…It’s easy to blame the birth control pill for your own sexual incontinence, but much harder to confess your own willful sins. The fat man is more likely to blame Nabisco for making Oreo creme cookies so delicious rather than to look into his own gluttony, sloth, and intemperance. …

We have children in the bodies of adults. All the rights, none of the responsibility. It’s called extended adolescence, and better thought of as a form of Peter Pan Syndrome. [women ‘suffer’ it too]

There is a lot of sweeping under the rug. Promiscuity is still a sign of psychopathy. Homosexuality is often accompanied with a low impulse control, a resultant inability to be monogamous and multiple fetishes, which grow worse and more extreme over time. Everyone knows by now the HIV and suicide rates among transsexuals.

We seem to ignore our own common law. The age of criminal responsibility is none at all. If they come up with a good excuse, like a child to a teacher, they can be let off. Naturally, they hide behind the medical model, and play victim. What else can they do, change? I blame the Nanny State for part of this. It infantilises adults for the sake of their health. The problem has multiple prongs.

In a biological sense, these people are either human, with responsibility for themselves, or inhuman, and undeserving of their rights accordingly. Dangerous line of thought? Perhaps. Tell that to the prefrontal cortex studies detailing the impulse control and rational decision making that living in a civilized society demands.