| >> Ahh. Psychologists. Expectations calibrated. > A, a positivist reductionist. With respect to psychology, given its history, the burden isn't on me to avoid faulty generalizations, it's on psychology to overcome the weight of its past. > Expectations on intellectual sophistication and ability to comprehend the world beyond simplistic models calibrated. At a time when the director of the NIMH has decided to abandon the DSM on the ground that it's not scientific enough to take seriously? http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia... Quote: "The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been “reliability” – each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness is its lack of validity ... Patients with mental disorders deserve better." What appears to be a simplistic generalization is, in this case, the result of much reflection and analysis, and a reluctant but legitimate conclusion. |