Showing posts with label stigma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stigma. Show all posts

Saturday, August 3, 2019

Psychiatric diagnoses 'not fit for purpose', scientifically meaningless


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190708131152.htm
An excerpt:
Professor Peter Kinderman, University of Liverpool, said: "This study provides yet more evidence that the biomedical diagnostic approach in psychiatry is not fit for purpose. Diagnoses frequently and uncritically reported as 'real illnesses' are in fact made on the basis of internally inconsistent, confused and contradictory patterns of largely arbitrary criteria. The diagnostic system wrongly assumes that all distress results from disorder, and relies heavily on subjective judgments about what is normal."