[drumdance]

DSM V is not perfect by any means, but it's silly to dismiss it entirely.

One may as well dismiss diagnosis of plague during the Black Death because germ theory had not been discovered yet.

[fredkbloggs]

I'm not dismissing it entirely, I'm opposing the manner in which it is used by clinicians, politicians, and the judiciary. A work of its nature should be used with the utmost caution and acceptance of its limitations, primarily by researchers. As it is, it's often treated as holy and unappealable writ by the clinical-political-judicial axis.