'Bible of
Insanity' Released in America (Liberation, France)
"A
society views itself in the mirror of its insanity, and this compendium can be
read as a disconcerting plunge into the psyche of America. ... Diagnosing
uncertain problems and treating them with very real medications simply
contributes to creating more illnesses ... Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies will
continue to patent addictive and lucrative molecules, which are consumed in
ever-increasing amounts."
The
new edition of the bible of insanity has been published in the United States
and will become, like its predecessors, the global reference document for
psychiatry [the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders]. It gives the nomenclature of
all mental disorders - the old, the serious, the improbable, the downright
ridiculous - which doubtless say more about the doctors who invented them than
the patients who supposedly suffer from them. A society views itself in the
mirror of its insanity, and this compendium can be read as a disconcerting
plunge into the psyche of America - the country where it would appear that the
extension of the pathological domain need know no limits, even when it begins
to provoke debate, and justifiably so. How, between this book's first edition in
1952 and the most recent, have we moved from 60 mental disorders to 450,
learnedly indexed? Evidently, the progress of psychiatric nosology
partially explains the phenomenon. The emergence and “ownership” of new
disorders, such as all those linked to employment, are also involved, but the
excessive pathologization of daily life, including
the most minor disorders, is a worrying symptom.
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Worldmeets.US
Diagnosing
uncertain problems and treating them with very real medications simply
contributes to creating more illnesses, as does recording, sometimes at a very
young age, an indelible fundamental flaw, or abnormality, in a patient’s
biography.
Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies will continue to
patent addictive and lucrative molecules, which are consumed in ever-increasing
amounts.
