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I sin blog sidste år, skriver chefen for National Institute of Mental Health, Dr

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09/07/2014

I sin blog sidste år, skriver chefen for National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Tom Insel omkring den nye "Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders":

"The goal of this new manual, as with all previous editions, is to provide a common language for describing psychopathology. While DSM has been described as a “Bible” for the field, it is, at best, a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each. 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. Unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma, or AIDS, the DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure."

Sagt med andre ord på dansk: psykiatrien er en pseudovidenskab, hvor man vedtager nye diagnoser baseret på en konsensus om nogle symptomer. Ingen prøver eller tests. Og de indrømmer det åbent.

Alligevel hælder politikerne gladeligt millarder i foretagenet med mange sørgelige menneskeskæbner som resultat.