DL_Binomial Abandonment - Surveillance 7/9
The rupture between research and clinical practice, the monopoly on the statistics applied to mental health, the medicalization of mental distress that leave the patients at their own makes more important the management of mental health that the individual treatment of a person determined. And, as Laurent points out in his article "The post-DSM crisis and psychoanalysis" this abandonment is offset by a hyper-vigilance to the population through health bureaucracies.
What it's listed can be managed and quantified. The DSM has been not only an instrument that allowed classifying mental disorders but has also influenced other fields such as justice and health insurance.
The limit, which leads to Frances write his book « Saving Normal. An insider’s look at the epidemic of mental illness » in 2014, is in inflationary bubbles disease. We are all crazy ? How to separate what is normal and pathological? Frances with his book denounces the excessive medicalization to a population that, according to other different criteria from DSM, might even be "normal."
Locate where is normal and does not modify the DSM and above these reviews, which are classified under these criteria also say yours. Why not be considered a hyperactive between 35 and 45 years in order to consume amphetamines? Why not be diagnosed as Asperger to access a special education program?
Based clinical description has been invalidated by science that seeks answers in the continuum of organic processes in the hope that research on dementias allow finding an observable clinical translation. While the subject is lost in so-called "personality disorders" in the revised by DSM, symptoms and personalities grouping updates. DSM 5 recedes, in any case, in front of these updates and leave them in an annex ,replacing with a science based on evidence of organic observable signs. There are no limits, then there are a continuun of mental illness. The limits of normal and pathological fade, diluted in a fluid identifications where the limit -nothing is impossible- never end and reveals the super-egolization of the world.