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hierarchy of gender and sexuality in ImageNet recalls earlier harmful forms of categorization, such as the classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.46 This deeply damaging categorization was used to justify subjecting people to repressive so-called therapies, and it took years of activism before the American
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and, 189–92 state power and, 188, 189 Dell, 35 democratic participation, 223–24 Democratic Republic of Congo, mining industry in, 34 Desai, Bhairavi, 86 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (American Psychiatric Association), 138 Diamandis, Peter, 231 Dick, Philip K., 267n20 Didi-Huberman, Georges, 10 digital epidermalization, 133 disability, 127, 146, 261n89 discrimination. See bias
Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling
by Danny Funt · 20 Jan 2026 · 285pp · 100,897 words
state approval and some, like slots and sports betting, that would require a tribe-state compact. In the early eighties, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM—known as “the bible of psychiatric assessment”—had added its first-ever entry for pathological gambling, a “disorder of impulse
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Derevensky, Jeffrey, 8–9, 289–290 Detroit Lions, 13, 186–187 Detroit Pistons, 231 DeWine, Mike, 266 DFS (daily fantasy sports), 39–46, 161, 248 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), 31 Disney, 42, 44, 55, 98–99, 101 Ditka, Mike, 35 Doctor, Zach, 250 Donaghy, Kim, 217–218 Donaghy, Tim, 217
Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul
by Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
some instances abused.”6 One such failure was the 1952 classification of homosexuality as a “sociopathic personality disturbance” in the American Psychological Association’s first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I). The classification was founded on shoddy research and guesswork, and it was devastating for the LGBTQ community. Discrimination against gays
Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Plan to Profit From Female Sexual Dysfunction
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, ‘is somewhat arbitrary, imprecise, and changeable’.4 One of the first things that strike you about this technical definition is that it comes from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which is produced by the American Psychiatric Association, the professional body representing psychiatrists. When it was first released in the 1950s
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) Decreased Sexual Desire Screener, 87–9 ‘designer vagina,’ 209 desire. see female sexual desire de Wet, Dr Charles (Boehringer’s UK medical director), 180, 181 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), 18–22, 57, 83, 178, 179, 190, 191, 198, 199 diagnostic testing for female sexual ‘dysfunction,’ 68–90 and brain chemical
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, 126 sildenafil, 105, 143 Vioxx, 154 drugs, consequences of unnecessary use. see side-effects Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin recommendation against testosterone patch, 165 DSM. see Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ‘dysfunction’ labelling. see labelling of disorders ‘dysfunction’ or part of everyday life?. see gap between science and marketing of FSD; medicalisation of
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–4 and Cape Cod meeting, 32–6, 42 dangers of mixing marketing and science, 59 the development of ‘sexual medicine,’ 32, 37–9 and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 19 emerging unease with, 13 financial, 32–8, 91–121, 210–5 and Physicians Payment Sunshine Act, 214–5 and public concern
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this book, offers a more comprehensive approach and provides physicians and patients with greater insight in the management of this problem. References 1 DSM-IV Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edn. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 1994. 2 Pearson DJ. Psychologic and somatic interrelationships in allergy and pseudoallergy. J Allergy Clin
SEDATED: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis
by James. Davies · 15 Nov 2021 · 307pp · 88,085 words
the Upper West Side of Manhattan, I sat searching the sales figures for perhaps the most influential book in the history of mental health: the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, otherwise known simply as the DSM. The DSM, now in its fifth edition, is a weighty 947-page blue and silver tome
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Davies, J. (2013), Cracked: why psychiatry is doing more harm than good, London: Icon Books. 10 Davies, J. (2016), ‘How voting and consensus created the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III)’, Anthropology and Medicine 24 (1):32–46. Decker, Hannah, S., (2018), The Making of DSM-III: A Diagnostic Manual’s
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productivity for years, while the Germans and Scandinavians, who have a more social version of the market, have far higher productivity levels. 11 APA (1980), Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd edn, Washington DC: American Psychiatric Association, p.xxii. 12 Ibid., 12. 13 Mayes, R. and Horwitz A. (2005), DSM-III and
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of categories may also become objects of contention and study. The above-mentioned demedicalization of the category homosexual in the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 3 (the DSM, a handbook of psychiatric classification) followed direct and vigorous lobbying of the APA by gay and lesbian advocates (Kirk and Kutchins 1992
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prevalence of diseases worldwide and includes the spectrum covered by antibiotic agents. Psychiatry Online (http://www.psychiatryonline.com/) is a compendium of core textbooks (including Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fifth edition (DSM V)), psychiatry journals and practice guidelines of the American Psychiatric Association, produced by the American Psychiatric Press. CardioSource (http
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major bout of depression, 37 percent received no treatment.22 There is much room for improvement. Until the biomarker era, depression was diagnosed by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) when a patient met five of nine criteria, including depressed mood, changes in sleep or physical activity, feelings of worthlessness, and
Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend
by Barbara Oakley Phd · 20 Oct 2008
personality type—a “high Mach.” This was too new a concept to have a relationship with any personality type or disorder listed in the trusty Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the “DSM”—currently on its fourth, text revision edition—the DSM-IV-R). And without being associated with a personality disorder in
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stimuli seen so frequently in borderline-like behavior. Dorsolateral dysfunction also contributes to an inability to learn from punishment. DSM-IV. An abbreviation for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the “DSM”—currently on its fourth, text revision edition—the DSM-IV-R). This is the standard reference used by health care
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researcher Laura Betzig, 268–70 Despotism and Differential Reproduction (Laura Betzig), 268 despots. See dictators devaluation and idealization, alternating between. See relationships, unstable personal, “splitting” Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. See DSM-IV dialectical materialism, 231n dialectic-behavioral therapy to help borderlines (developed by Marsha Linehan), 329 Diana, Princess attraction toward aristocracy
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behavior in a hospital setting, 143–44 Drudge Report, The, role in reporting on Machiavellians, 251, 338 drug addiction. See under addictive behavior DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) defined, 47 diagnostic criteria for personality disorders antisocial, 50–51 borderline, 158–59 narcissistic, 244 distinction between Axis I and Axis II
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