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The Search for Mental Illness and Addiction in the Brain, Part III: The DSM-5 War Over What Being Human Means
The Search for Mental Illness and Addiction in the Brain, Part III: The DSM-5 War Over What Being Human Means
Stanton Peele
This post follows part one, on the Human Genome Project and the inheritance of psychological traits and psychiatric conditions, and part two, on the past failures of neuroscience to comprehend the nature of human experience and to address psychopathology. In part three, I discuss how the fundamental dispute over the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), which has already been rejected by the director of the National Institute of Mental Health, is about what it means to be a human being.
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