Chrystalwuzhere
12-03-2006, 01:54 PM
I have an excellent quote here that I wanted to share:
"The American Psychiatric Association specializes in turning ordinary human frailty into disease...The association has been inventing mental illnesses for the last 50 years or so. The original diagnostic manual appeared in 1952 and contained 107 diagnoses and 132 pages. The second edition burst forth in 1968 with 180 diagnoses. In 1980, the association produced a 494 page tome with 226 conditions. Then, in 1994, the manual exploded to 886 pages and 365 conditions, representing a 340% increase in the number of diseases over 42 years.
Nowhere in the rest of medicine has such a proliferation of categories occurred. The reason for the difference between psychiatry and other medical specialties has more to do with ideology than with science."
--Irwin Savodnik, professor of Psychiatry and Philosophy at UCLA.
Lamplighter Magazine, Vol. 27: No. 6. November-December, 2006.
"The American Psychiatric Association specializes in turning ordinary human frailty into disease...The association has been inventing mental illnesses for the last 50 years or so. The original diagnostic manual appeared in 1952 and contained 107 diagnoses and 132 pages. The second edition burst forth in 1968 with 180 diagnoses. In 1980, the association produced a 494 page tome with 226 conditions. Then, in 1994, the manual exploded to 886 pages and 365 conditions, representing a 340% increase in the number of diseases over 42 years.
Nowhere in the rest of medicine has such a proliferation of categories occurred. The reason for the difference between psychiatry and other medical specialties has more to do with ideology than with science."
--Irwin Savodnik, professor of Psychiatry and Philosophy at UCLA.
Lamplighter Magazine, Vol. 27: No. 6. November-December, 2006.