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No Consensus on Mental Disorders
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Since the rejection by the National Institute of Mental Health of the latest DSM by the APA, there's been a significant push to develop molecular understanding of mental illness. The action by the NIMH to reject the DSM 5 has called into question the scientific validity of all previously devised diagnoses of mental illness. From psychology today (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/201305/the-nimh-withdraws-support-dsm-5):
"The weakness” of the manual, he (Insel, Director of the NIMH) explained in a sharply worded statement, “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." That consensus is now clearly missing. Whether it ever really existed remains in doubt. As one consultant for DSM-III conceded to the New Yorker magazine about the amount of horsetrading that drove that supposedly "evidenced-based" edition from 1980: “There was very little systematic research, and much of the research that existed was really a hodgepodge—scattered, inconsistent, ambiguous."