{"id":1825,"date":"2011-01-27T10:38:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T15:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:36","slug":"dsm-wars-the-battle-to-define-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/27\/dsm-wars-the-battle-to-define-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"DSM wars: the battle to define mental illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/01\/26\/dsm-wars-the-battle.html\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/01\/26\/dsm-wars-the-battle.html\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ff_dsmv_f.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8220;Editors of previous volumes have joined with skeptics from within the profession to protest the very idea of the <em>DSM<\/em>,  saying that its &#8220;diseases&#8221; bear no relation to any particular  neuropathology, and instead represent (at best), handy categories to put  on insurance forms, and (at worst), a bonanza for the pharma industry,  who get to produce pills that &#8220;cure&#8221; any disease that&#8217;s defined in the <em>DSM<\/em>.  Greenberg captures the mental health field at the cusp of an enormous  transformation driven by better genomics, better imaging, and hence a  better understanding of what connections various symptoms have to one  another, to physical problems, to genetics, and to health. The <em>DSM<\/em> has always been controversial &#8212; it&#8217;s the document that turned  homosexuality into a mental illness for years &#8212; but never moreso than  now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/01\/26\/dsm-wars-the-battle.html\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DSM wars: the battle to define mental illness &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;Editors of previous volumes have joined with skeptics from within the profession to protest the very idea of the DSM, saying that its &#8220;diseases&#8221; bear no relation to any particular neuropathology, and instead represent (at best), handy categories to put on insurance forms, and (at worst), a bonanza for the pharma industry, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/27\/dsm-wars-the-battle-to-define-mental-illness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DSM wars: the battle to define mental illness<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[120,259,260],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-information","tag-boingboing","tag-dsm","tag-mentalillness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10203,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/10203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}