The importance of the NIMH announcement is perhaps being understated here. It's not just that the NIMH isn't happy with the DSM, it's the fact that they are going to start moving their funding away from research projects that are based on DSM diagnostic criteria. In other words, it directly affects who gets money and who doesn't.
As Insel writes, "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." The question is whether the DSM even managed to ensure that clinicians were using the same terms in the same way. And if it doesn't even do that...
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It has been written into the RCW.
As Insel writes, "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." The question is whether the DSM even managed to ensure that clinicians were using the same terms in the same way. And if it doesn't even do that...
Of only that were the case. The problem with Gawker sites is that they let in far too much crap and babble.