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Psychiatric classifications do tend to be problematic because personality is so complex. It's not like botany.
by theoh 11y ago
Psychiatric classifications do tend to be problematic because personality is so complex. It's not like botany.
- Kenji 11y agoI agree. I wish the field of psychiatry would address these problems honestly and scientifically, rather than inventing and voting disorders into their manual.
- Silfen 11y agoThe DSM exists for billing purposes. It's not exactly a scientific taxonomy of psychiatric disorders.
- munificent 11y ago> It's not like botany. Hell, even botany is complex. Every Wikipedia article I read on a plant species seems to invariably have a long section talking about various places the plant has been on the taxonomic tree at different points in time and how scientists still aren't sure where to stick it.