Online open letter / petition to the DSM 5 committee from the Society for Humanistic Psychology, Division 32 of the American Psychological Association. Co-signatories include many organisations from around the world.

The DSM – Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders, is currently being developed as version 5 in committee, boardrooms.

The manual is published by the American Psychiatric Association.

According to the APA if you are reading this you may “suffer” from one of it’s many new brands of social disobediance disorders [it prefers the term “mental illness”]- newly minted  Internet Addiction Disorder.

HUAD

According to reasonable human beings, if you are a member of the APA and it’s DSM5 committees then you may just be causing the world and humanity to suffer from your own HUAD…

a condition in which sufferers often lack insight into their own situation  and which is  not always so  obvious as portrayed here…

Can it  be just me who thinks, just maybe,  the best thing that the APA and its DSM committee can do for global mental health and for  humanity worldwide is simply to dissolve itself ?

Anyhoo, the petition does not ask them to do that but it does ask that they shift away from current  practices based in marketing and dodgy science [my words] to one based in real science, humanity and healing.

Read the petition and  sign it yourself at …

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/dsm5/

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