This is in response to an article found on the Pioneer Press’ website http://www.twincities.com/health/ci_14373118?nclick_check=1 called “Changes in psychiatric manual could introduce new disorders”. It details plans to update the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. New proposals (for review) include “psychosis risk syndrome” and “hypersexual disorder”.
In response to Rob Stein’s February 10, 2010 article Changes in psychiatric manual could introduce new disorders, let me first say that I am not a bit surprised. I am very interested to find out just how much further the Human mind has warped from normalcy in the past sixteen years. In our modern world of neo-liberal medicine, where patients become consumers and the corporate, for-profit realm drives medical services as products, it is no shock that more and more disorders will make the list. Where do these definitions come from and who do they benefit? “The proposed revisions are designed to bring the best scientific evidence to bear” and yet the first stage in publication is an online commentary soliciting public opinion? Until it is no longer acceptable for health care to be treated as the “big business” that it has become, I encourage readers to be weary of new products offered to fix newly defined disorders.
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