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>The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been “reliability” – each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness
by jsprogrammer 10y ago
>The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been “reliability” – each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness is its lack of validity.
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-diagnosis.shtml http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...
Time for a new book.
- scott_s 10y agoI like Steven Novella's nuanced take on this issue: https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/dsm-5-and-the-fight-for-the-heart-of-psychiatry/ https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/dsm-5-and-the-fight-for...