Welcome to European Tribune. It's gone a bit quiet around here these days, but it's still going.
Display:
Happy Genes | 66 comments (66 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Happy Genes (none / 0)
DSM? Perhaps I am too tired, but I can't place the acronym.

I have to say that whilst I do think drugs are the wrong way to deal with things generally, there are good grounds to think that life for ordinary people is more unstable and filled with at least less apparent security and this makes a rise in the demand for treatment of mental disquiet inevitable.

I might prefer if it inspired political engagement or revolutionary activity, but this is not how most humans react to this kind of stimulus it seems.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 05:47:50 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Re: Happy Genes (none / 1)
DSM = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders.  Some of the versions have been extremely controversial.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes
by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 05:54:40 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Re: Happy Genes (none / 1)
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (of mental disorders). It's a US acronym and I am only aware of it because the medicalization and farmacoization of life is a hot-button issue in a sector of the American radical left some of whose online publications I used to read regularly.

By the way, I was once researching the definitions of some personality disorders online, and it seems like there are different definitions of the same disorders (in the sense of slightly different diagnostic guidelines) between the US and Europe (WHO?). It is very possible, although I have no evidence of this, that there are also differences in treatment.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 05:58:30 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Re: Happy Genes (none / 1)
Somewhere in the labyrinth of my electronic filing system I have a couple of URLs about a proposal (last year I think) to add "political paranoia" to the DSM as a distinct new syndrome.  This would mean it would be a diagnosable and druggable syndrome to doubt the official government story on anything... to assert that the 2000 and 2004 elections might have been rigged in selected states, for example, or to pick holes in the official story about 9/11.  Solzhenitsyn would have felt right at home, I guess... clinical psych as an organ of State control...

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Fri Jan 27th, 2006 at 01:55:27 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Re: Happy Genes (4.00 / 2)
You've got to be kidding, but the voices in my head tell me you're not.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 27th, 2006 at 05:40:01 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Happy Genes | 66 comments (66 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
Display: