Comments on: The war of the manual of mental illness http://mindhacks.com/2011/01/04/the-war-of-the-manual-of-mental-illness/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:47:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 4 vs. 5. What’s the difference? http://mindhacks.com/2011/01/04/the-war-of-the-manual-of-mental-illness/#comment-18262 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:20:00 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=16644#comment-18262 [...] more discussion of the Wired article can be found on mindhack. These articles are just a couple of the many on the subject. [...]

]]> By: How is an antidepressant an antidepressant? « Thought Broadcast http://mindhacks.com/2011/01/04/the-war-of-the-manual-of-mental-illness/#comment-17421 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:17:18 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=16644#comment-17421 [...] For one thing, the diagnostic criteria for clinical depression are broad enough (and may get even more broad) that many patients who are experiencing “the blues” or are “stressed out” [...]

]]> By: Sean http://mindhacks.com/2011/01/04/the-war-of-the-manual-of-mental-illness/#comment-16818 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:23:11 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=16644#comment-16818 A manual that over time changes, is a manual that is composed of incompleteness. Incompleteness still occurs if one is still located at a distance from the actual truth. At a distance from the truth, one practices mere beliefs.

Certainty can not be based upon incompleteness, and thus can not be based upon beliefs.

Thus if people are certain that there are “other” people out in the world that clearly suffer from a mental illness, say Schizophrenia for instance, then an error has taken place.

At a distance from the truth, we are still always dealing with probabilities, NOT cases of certainty.

]]> By: 4 vs. 5. What’s the difference? | Durham DBT http://mindhacks.com/2011/01/04/the-war-of-the-manual-of-mental-illness/#comment-16667 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:11:54 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=16644#comment-16667 [...] article in Wired Magazine talks about this debate.↩Some more discussion of the Wired article can be found on mindhack. These articles are just a couple of the many on the subject. ↩Thomas Widiger’s classic article [...]

]]> By: VSF http://mindhacks.com/2011/01/04/the-war-of-the-manual-of-mental-illness/#comment-16592 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:51:38 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=16644#comment-16592 I’d say that there’s an additional category error (and this isn’t that off from what @Harold is saying — I think): Trying to define a mental disorder only with reference to neuroscience is like trying to debug a piece of software only by looking at the silicon and the wires (the ‘computer analogy’ is as useful as it ever was!). In a particular mental disorder, all the neurotransmitters, neurons, hormones, etc., might be working exactly how they’re supposed to. It’s just the WAY they’re wired up — how they give rise to a particular pattern of perception, emotion, belief, or action — that’s causing the challenge.

]]> By: Harold http://mindhacks.com/2011/01/04/the-war-of-the-manual-of-mental-illness/#comment-16276 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:39:01 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=16644#comment-16276 If they are going solve all of their problems in psychiatry it’s the same solution as with psychology, evolutionary understanding. The only way to understand what is happening in reality is by understanding the functions and origins of the systems and particles that are interacting. It’s just taking forever because as we know, science advances one funeral at a time.

]]> By: Labels « The Ψ Project http://mindhacks.com/2011/01/04/the-war-of-the-manual-of-mental-illness/#comment-16273 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:34:35 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=16644#comment-16273 [...] back to DSM-V, Mind Hacks shuns the idea of blanket definitions of mental illness based on purely neurological approaches. [...]

]]> By: Mind Hacks: The war of the manual of mental illness | You Don't Need A Weatherman http://mindhacks.com/2011/01/04/the-war-of-the-manual-of-mental-illness/#comment-16265 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:50:10 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=16644#comment-16265 [...] full post here This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged diagnosis, DSM-5, mental illness, neuroscience, [...]

]]> By: kevin blumer http://mindhacks.com/2011/01/04/the-war-of-the-manual-of-mental-illness/#comment-16248 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:08:13 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=16644#comment-16248 it seems to get laymans turms on anything in mental health is quite diffficult take wiki for example the wording is to jargon or big words syndrome ive decided with BPD im going to do BPD in a nutshell and then take all the big words out
so it is crystal clear and in easy languge for ever one to understand including myself

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