DSM
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DSM is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 26, 2022 and January 25, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “the normal-person real-world DSM tradition of psychiatric diagnosis”; “meant to compete with the DSM”; “and the DSM is still silly for a lot of reasons”. It most often appears alongside DSM, A Clinical Introduction To Lacanian Psychoanalysis, aphantasis.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: April 26, 2022
- Last seen: January 25, 2023
Appears In
- Book Review: A Clinical Introduction To Lacanian Psychoanalysis
- You Don’t Want A Purely Biological, Apolitical Taxonomy Of Mental Disorders
Related Pages
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- DSM (2 shared issues)
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- A Clinical Introduction To Lacanian Psychoanalysis (1 shared issues)
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- aphantasis (1 shared issues)
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- Astralcodexten Com (1 shared issues)
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- Ayn Rand (1 shared issues)
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- Bored Ape NFTs (1 shared issues)
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- Bruce Fink (1 shared issues)
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- Colette Soler (1 shared issues)
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- curl-up shadow dimensions (1 shared issues)
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- DSM-III (1 shared issues)
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- FeepingCreature (1 shared issues)
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- Fink (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
The Lacanian tradition evolved in parallel to the normal-person real-world DSM tradition of psychiatric diagnosis. Lacanianism admits three diagnoses: psychotic, neurotic (subtypes: hysteric, obsessive, phobic), and pervert. Although the book isn’t super-clear on this, I don’t think “normal healthy person” is an option: most successful people without obvious psych problems are some flavor of neurotic.
Here’s a post about HiTOP, a scientifically-grounded taxonomy of mental disorders meant to compete with the DSM. It has many good features (see further discussion here about advantages and disadvantages) and deserves more attention. But one claim stood out. The author of the post writes:
Inline links: Here’s a post about HiTOP, see further discussion here about advantages and disadvantages
New taxonomies of mental disorders are still useful for other reasons. I’m not criticizing HiTOP - I like HiTOP - and the DSM is still silly for a lot of reasons. This post is not an attack on new taxonomies full stop. It’s just the claims to be able to avoid political bias in what is vs. isn’t a disorder that I find compelling.