{"id":35149,"date":"2013-04-08T23:11:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T03:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=35149"},"modified":"2013-04-08T23:18:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T03:18:25","slug":"stop-dsm-european-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/08\/stop-dsm-european-style\/","title":{"rendered":"stop-dsm european style&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" width=\"60\" hspace=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/stop-dsm-1.gif\" \/>Back in the fall [<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/02\/cest-la-vie\/\">c&rsquo;est la vie&hellip;<\/a>], I happened onto a site for a European group [<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stop-dsm.org\/index.php\/en\/\">STOP-DSM<\/a>] centered in France that opposed the DSM [not just the DSM-5] and its influence on the ICD [International Classification of Diseases]. Here&#8217;s what I had to say about it back in November:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<div align=\"justify\"><sup><strong>Rather than trying to synopsize their points [and failing], I&rsquo;ll point to their <font color=\"#200020\">Manifest<\/font> which summarizes all things. It&rsquo;s called:<\/strong><\/sup><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stop-dsm.org\/index.php\/en\/stop-dsm-3\/initiatives\/individuals-petition\"><u><strong><font color=\"#200020\">HAVING IT OUT ONCE AND FOR ALL WITH THE DSM<\/font><\/strong><\/u><\/a><br \/>              <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stop-dsm.org\/index.php\/en\/stop-dsm-3\/initiatives\/individuals-petition\"><strong><font color=\"#200020\">The  Mandatory Diagnostic Reference to  the DSM is contrary to scientific  initiative; Harmful to treatments of  the human psyche; Costly for  governments; Paralyzing for research and  teaching.<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p>         <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><sup><strong>The term &ldquo;psychical or mental  suffering&rdquo;  cannot be confined to the traditional definition of  &ldquo;illnesses,&rdquo;  because it may impact anyone and everyone. The World  Health Organization  has deemed it a major priority, but then initially  engaged itself in  the struggle against it via a one-sided choice which  views the Manual  issued by the APA (American Psychiatric Association)  as grounded in  science. WHO&rsquo;s restrictive choice bears the generic name  of &ldquo;DSM,&rdquo; or  Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,  the third version  of which stigmatizes conflicts that are important to  psychiatric  evaluation, and is contemporaneous with the treatment  recommendations of  the behavioralists and practitioners of CBT. Since  its methods are not  clearly delineated, they are also contributing to  the promotion of an  indispensable pharmacological accompaniment&hellip;<\/strong><\/sup><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\"><sup><strong>I recommend getting in a french frame of mind and reading the whole thing. <em>If you read French, I&rsquo;d suggest the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stop-dsm.org\/index.php\/en\/stop-dsm-3\/initiatives\/individuals-petition?layout=edit&#038;id=12\" target=\"_blank\"><u>french version<\/u><\/a>. I can barely still read French, but English translation of french prose always loses some of the music.<\/em> So maybe now I can explain why I thought of that trip  to Yugoslavia in my late youth. I saw something artificial but I didn&rsquo;t  know it. It was a false unity forged for reasons of historical  necessity and maintained by force. It contained the roots of failed  monarchies, ethnic and religious hatred, the early 20th century  conflicts between fascism and communism &ndash; all unresolved for more than a  generation until they could later see the light of day. Reading the <font color=\"#200020\">stop-DSM Manifest<\/font>,  I felt the same way. The authors weren&rsquo;t afraid to be psychoanalysts or  psychologists. They scoffed at phrases like &quot;evidence-based&quot; as a  trick. They openly pointed to the hegemony of the Cognitive Behaviorists  and the Psychopharmacologists in the DSMs. It reminded me of the heated  debates we had in the 1970s [and all enjoyed]. And while it felt very  french, it also seemed very real.<\/strong><\/sup><\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><font color=\"#200020\">Chris Lane<\/font><\/strong> writes a column for <strong><font color=\"#0033ff\">Psychology Today<\/font><\/strong> called <strong><font color=\"#0033ff\">Side Effects<\/font><\/strong>, and has a post by guest contributor, <strong><font color=\"#200020\">Patrick Landman<\/font><\/strong>, Universit\u00e9 de Paris VII, who is the President of STOP-DSM. Says Chris in introduction:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/side-effects\/201303\/why-dsm-5-concerns-european-psychiatrists?page=1\">Why DSM-5 Concerns European Psychiatrists<\/a><br \/>   <strong><font color=\"#0033ff\">Psychology Today: Side Effects<\/font><\/strong><br \/>   by Christopher Lane, Ph.D.<br \/>   March 18, 2013<\/div>\n<p>    <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><sup><strong>Last September, in a post called &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/side-effects\/201209\/anti-dsm-sentiment-rises-in-france\" target=\"_blank\">Sentiment Rises in France<\/a>,&quot; I reported on the arguments and concerns of Stop DSM,  a group based in Paris comprising [among others] prominent  psychiatrists and psychoanalysts disturbed by the power of the American Psychiatric  Association and its &quot;one-track&quot; focus on biological psychiatry. Today, I  am pleased to include the thoughts of Patrick Landman, a psychiatrist  and associated researcher at the Universit\u00e9 de Paris VII, who voices his  own concerns about the likely effects of DSM-5,  including on diagnostic and prescription rates across Europe. In  excerpts from a longer essay he explains why the WHO should distance  itself from DSM-5, how the manual has changed European  psychiatry for the worse, and why practitioners around the world should  boycott the edition. An impressive list of U.S. media reports on DSM-5 follows, itself indicating how closely Europeans are following the publication.<\/strong><\/sup><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">I&#8217;m not even going to try to synopsize Patrick Landman&#8217;s narrative. It&#8217;s something that ought to be read as he wrote it. He sits outside of our frame of reference, and it gives him a clearer vision than many of us writing about the DSM and this new revision. The purpose of my post is simple. <strong><font color=\"#200020\">Read what Patrick Landman has to say.<\/font><\/strong> He&#8217;s able to articulate a viewpoint that many Americans feel, but can&#8217;t get quite far enough away to find a way to say&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the fall [c&rsquo;est la vie&hellip;], I happened onto a site for a European group [STOP-DSM] centered in France that opposed the DSM [not just the DSM-5] and its influence on the ICD [International Classification of Diseases]. Here&#8217;s what I had to say about it back in November: Rather than trying to synopsize their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35149"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35158,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35149\/revisions\/35158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}