America has a profound ability to diagnose individual problems, and an active inability to diagnose social problems.
The American psychological industry cannot be let off the hook. DSM-5 is a handbook for how to blame society’s failures on individuals. We need scientific doctors capable of considering not only the realities they are allowed to accept but also the realities of the actually existing world in which their patients live.
We desperately need legitimate mental health institutions, but for-profit healthcare and for-profit education cannot provide that.
The American psychological industry cannot be let off the hook. DSM-5 is a handbook for how to blame society’s failures on individuals. We need scientific doctors capable of considering not only the realities they are allowed to accept but also the realities of the actually existing world in which their patients live.
We desperately need legitimate mental health institutions, but for-profit healthcare and for-profit education cannot provide that.