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You're probably very right. Unlike what GP posted, the DSM isn't the bible of psychology. In Basic Psychology in college, I learned that the DSM only exists to
by stephengillie 13y ago
You're probably very right.
Unlike what GP posted, the DSM isn't the bible of psychology. In Basic Psychology in college, I learned that the DSM only exists to help insurance companies classify and bill the practices of psychologists.
- dragonwriter 13y agoWhich is pretty much backwards, it's written by the American Psychiatric Association, not the insurance industry; certainly it is relevant to insurance, but not it's not written to help insurance companies do anything; it's written to document the accepted clinical practice of the psychiatric community in order to (among other things) help the psychiatric community secure full reimbursement for clinically-appropriate care from insurance companies.
- stephengillie 13y agoSo you're saying it's a guide for psychiatrists to push bills to insurers, not pull bills from them?