The American Psychiatric Association's (APA) billing bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM, finally has been outed for the fraud it is. The National Institute of Mental Health, NIMH, has declared the "the weakness of the manual is its lack of validity." That's the good news.
The bad news is that while the nation's premier mental health agency has finally admitted the uselessness of psychiatry's manual, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, still is using the DSM criteria to lend credence to mental illnesses that are not based in science.
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