Left & the Law review the DSM-5

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Mon, 06/03/2013 - 12:00am
Mike Snedeker & Jan Haaken discuss critiques of the latest official bible of psychiatry

Psychologist Jan Haaken and attorney Mike Snedeker discuss the latest revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and some of the critiques of it . They discuss the benefits of having a common language and destigmatiing mental disorders, the proliferation of new categories and the risk it poses to credibility, and the problem of biologizing disorders and neglecting their social dimensions.

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