I very much regret adding #Aspergers to DSM-IV because it was wildly over-used & stigmatized millions of people. The DSM-5 #Autism spectrum is even worse for the same reasons. But the genie is now out of the bottle & I doubt we will ever go back to more conservative diagnosis.
Dr. Allen Frances, MD
"As Chair of the DSM-IV Task Force [that prepared the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1994], I bear partial responsibility for the false epidemic of autistic disorders," Dr. Allen Frances confessed to the Psychiatric Times.
Frances would later issue a mea culpa, confessing that the epidemics of autism and depression that followed the issuance of DSM IV were largely iatrogenic — the product of a series of well-intentioned mistakes on his part.
a catchall category called "Autistic Spectrum Disorders" (ASD). The new criteria have only exacerbated the over-diagnosis of autism.
lucrative deals with pharmaceutical companies in search of new markets for existing drugs; and greater financial assistance for schools with special needs students. No wonder that autism has become something of a diagnosis du jour.
hallucinatory thinking in conjunction with self-soothing in a stage of thinking which preceded the infant’s engagement with external reality (Freud, 2001[1905]). Bleuler also argued that the concept of autism was a refinement of Janet’s perte de la fonction du réel. In 1903, Janet had explained the function of reality as a synthesis of all psychological functions ranging from automatic functions at the level of the nervous system up to complex thoughts and actions. If the nervous system was weak, psychological tension would drop and an individual would lose the ability to synthesize these complex functions and also lose the sense of reality (Janet and Raymond, 1903). He or she would then revert to a form of thinking which preceded the individual’s ability to conceptualize the sense of self.
an absence of logic, a predominance of visual imagery over conceptual thought, and no awareness of the connections that can be made between visual perceptions
Wow this is a very STRANGE definition of a "disease."!!
Researchers say over-diagnosis to blame for spike in number of autism cases
https://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/canada/researchers-say-over-diagnosis-to-blame-for-spike-in-number-of-autism-cases-343929/
In the 1960s, severe autism was thought to affect up to 10 children in 10,000. By 2014, it was one child in 59. But diagnostic criteria are more loosely applied
That's INSANE!!
So it's over 10 times worse.
“If this trend holds, the objective difference between people with autism and the general population will disappear in less than 10 years.
“The definition of autism,” Mottron added, “may get too blurry to be meaningful — trivializing the condition — because we are increasingly applying the diagnosis to people whose differences from the general population are less pronounced.”
The finding might explain why no major discoveries have been made in autism in the last decade, he said, because studies are being watered down with too many people with mild and dubious symptoms who aren’t sufficiently different from people without true autism.
It also suggests that any child, or adult, with symptoms loosely resembling autism is now being labelled “autistic,” overwhelming specialty clinics and other services and making it harder for those truly in need to get help.
Autism was first described in the 1940s. In the 1960s, severe autism was thought to affect five to 10 children for every 10,000. By 2014, the estimate was one child in 59, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There is no gold standard, no biological marker such as a blood test, “to tell you this one is autistic, this one is not,” Mottron said in an interview. “People tried all possible solutions, but with the constant enlargement of the criteria.”
Since when the hell does having Fewer Friends mean having a Biological Brain Disease? Crazy!
“Fifty years ago, one sign of autism was a lack of apparent interest in others. Nowadays it’s simply having fewer friends than others,” Mottron said. Another symptom was fewer facial expressions. “Twenty years ago you would ask for a complete absence of facial expression. Now it’s less facial expression, fewer friends, less reciprocity — it’s become more and more fuzzy.”
I didn't know that "friends" were some kind of legal requirement? I thought people had the FREEDOM to spend their time doing other things?
Some experts say the floodgates to over-diagnosis opened in 1994, when the American Psychiatric Association released the fourth edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the so-called “bible” of mental illness.
“Probably the biggest mistake we made in DSM-IV was including Asperger’s, a much milder form of autistic disorder with unclear boundaries to normal diversity, eccentricity and giftedness,” said Dr. Allen Frances, who chaired the task force that produced the DSM-IV. Until then, autism was more narrowly defined.
Field trials suggested merging Asperger syndrome with autism would increase the rate of autism three-fold, said Frances, emeritus professor of psychiatry at Duke University. Instead, “Careless diagnosis, often related to requirements for extra school services, resulted in a fake epidemic — a 50-fold increase in the past 25 years.”
The fifth (and current) edition of the manual, DSM-5, made things worse by collapsing classic autism and Asperger’s into a “spectrum” that makes it even easier to misdiagnose, Frances said.
The unintended consequences, he said, have been “disastrous.”
Still, “The cliché that you will see everywhere is, ‘oh, you have more autism because they are better recognized,’ which is absolutely wrong,” he said.
“It’s not that they are better recognized,” he said. It’s that people with less profound deviations from “normal” are being diagnosed with autism.
Now that's the problem - as R.D. Liang stated - Civilization is INSANE!! So why pretend civilization is "normal"? Because people are brainwashed by corporate-state Big Pharma mass mind control, etc. Fascist culture.
MD Allen Frances, Author 'TWILIGHT OF AMERICAN SANITY, A PSYCHIATRIST ANALYZES THE AGE OF TRUMP'
So he says you have to have "distress or impairment" to be mentally ill.
So he says Trump is not insane?
What is the impairment is due to Civilization being insane?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htxgBc5LFRk
So Trump is evil but not mentally ill?
The APA's diagnostic manual is afforded unquestioned authority even though unsound science, political motivations, and financial conflicts of interest (with drug companies) are known to influence its development. Indeed, without comprehensive ethics oversight, psychiatric diagnostic fads will endure, and the medical sins of each generation will be visited upon the next.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsPiAplyqZE
Hans Asperger 'actively cooperated with Nazi child euthanasia program'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQUWJhDJPxw&t=1735s
The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Trump is a Symptom of our Societal Diseases - Allen Frances, MD - podcast
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