>Who gets to define what the "ideal human" is? Psychiatrists/the authors of the DSM. >If the ideal can change, doesn't that make classifying mental illness co

>Who gets to define what the "ideal human" is? Psychiatrists/the authors of the DSM. >If the ideal can change, doesn't that make classifying mental illness completely subjective? Yes, it is completely subjective: "psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests" -Allen Frances, Chairman of DSM-IV https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Frances https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Frances