Re:Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024)
by dotancohen on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @12:14PM
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> Why shouldn't it include a bunch of treatments if they've been shown to be beneficial?
It most certainly should, I'm not saying it shouldn't. My argument is that, by suggesting specific treatments, the DSM is a prescription tool. Not merely a diagnostic tool.
Doctors (at least the good ones) aren't usually going in blind and just doing whatever the DSM tell them to as if they were following a flowchart or checklist. The DSM (which I'm not even fully defending here, I personally it feel has all kinds of problems) is just a guide. It's not the only tool in a doctor's arsenal and they aren't obligated to follow it.