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You Aren’t In The DSM—Asterisk

Not everyone needs to be classified.

“Since its first edition in 1952, the DSM has gradually evolved from a slim document meant to standardize psychiatric recordkeeping into a sprawling classification system that shoulders a set of responsibilities it was never designed to bear. It is expected to guide clinical care, enable research, satisfy insurance companies, anchor epidemiological studies, shape patient self-understanding, and serve as a platform for public policy. Each of these demands pulls the manual in different directions.”

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/12-books/you-arent-in-the-dsm

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