If the basic logic of the DSM is flawed, it should be abandoned. Instead, psychiatrists should move towards a system that looks at an individual’s mental experiences in context, alongside their unique developmental vulnerabilities and strengths, as the main source for analysing and responding to their distress. Diagnosis would no longer name a disorder but map what kinds of support, relationships and learning processes are most likely to help a person regain agency, coherence and a sense of future.
Unsurprisingly [email protected] is banned from my instance (probably for lib shilling?) so I can’t reply directly.
But just because the APA admits that their science is trash, that doesn’t mean that we need to respect their science. It doesn’t mean we should use their pseudo-science as a basis for health care, etc. That’s the point.