Hi Steve, Totally agree with everything you said. If psychiatrists were to make the real changes necessary in the DSM it would have major ramifications on other sectors of society like the legal system and the military; it would ignite lawsuits and force the VA to give out benefits, money it doesn't want to spend. That's why the military gave Martin Seligman a $34 million dollar no-bid contract to implement his pathetic "positive thinking" model. A soldier sees his buddy blown up and he's supposed to change his thinking somehow in a positive way...right!. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec11/ptsd_12-14.html. It's ridiculous. And it's more blame-the-victim mentality. You can see from the link that Bessel van der Kolk, an expert in PTSD, says it's hogwash. The adage is PTSD is a normal reaction to an abnormal situation. There's a lot of effort to not acknowledge that truth.
FYI, I did add Saving Normal by Dr. Allen Frances who was on leadership committees for the DSM-3 and DSM-3R.
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