Wednesday, April 10, 2013
DSM-5: Medicalising grief?
One of the live debates in mental health at the moment concerns the new edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5).
Many argue that its multiplication of the number of psychiatric disorders represents a medicalising of normal human emotions such as grief.
This BBC Radio 4 programme gives a good introduction to the debate.
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Its not just emotions like grief, there's increasing argument that the diagnosis of ADD (the definition of which is becoming broader) is medicalising normal child behaviour.
Thinking about Just William - he'd probably be dosed up with Ritalin these days...
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