Comments on: Gender, Sexuality, and the DSM http://yellowallpaper.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/115/ Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:32:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Carolyn http://yellowallpaper.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/115/#comment-38 Carolyn Wed, 06 May 2009 20:32:51 +0000 http://yellowallpaper.wordpress.com/?p=115#comment-38 NO WORDS. So much for any kind of, you know, evidence-based practice. *Expanding* already dubious definitions to include things that are in no demonstrable way actual disorders is either fundamentally bigoted, a money grab, or both. Okay, this is seriously something I am going to need to get involved with. Hell, I just confirmed my membership with the Canadian Psychological Association. WTF. Dammit, *this* is why there's a need for critical dialogue in every damned academic discipline. Stats and ethics, people -- you can't get by without them. NO WORDS.

So much for any kind of, you know, evidence-based practice. *Expanding* already dubious definitions to include things that are in no demonstrable way actual disorders is either fundamentally bigoted, a money grab, or both.

Okay, this is seriously something I am going to need to get involved with. Hell, I just confirmed my membership with the Canadian Psychological Association.

WTF. Dammit, *this* is why there’s a need for critical dialogue in every damned academic discipline. Stats and ethics, people — you can’t get by without them.

]]> By: Christine http://yellowallpaper.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/115/#comment-37 Christine Wed, 06 May 2009 20:08:16 +0000 http://yellowallpaper.wordpress.com/?p=115#comment-37 The DSM is published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and therefore has a North American/Western bias. However, it also stands as an example to other diagnostic publications internationally. The DSM is published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and therefore has a North American/Western bias. However, it also stands as an example to other diagnostic publications internationally.

]]> By: Tyler http://yellowallpaper.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/115/#comment-36 Tyler Wed, 06 May 2009 19:59:14 +0000 http://yellowallpaper.wordpress.com/?p=115#comment-36 Is this just the American DSM, or is it international? Is this just the American DSM, or is it international?

]]> By: Tyler http://yellowallpaper.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/115/#comment-35 Tyler Wed, 06 May 2009 19:58:32 +0000 http://yellowallpaper.wordpress.com/?p=115#comment-35 This could all be easily resolved if we just stopped copulating. There would be no need to monitor everyone's sexual experience if we just became asexual, genderless, amorphous units. The psychiatric institution has bigger fish to fry than just a few people feeling a little too comfortable in dresses-- over half of our population suffers from "feeling good in a dress" syndrome! This paraphilia is called "femininity" and has gone unrecognized for far too long. This could all be easily resolved if we just stopped copulating. There would be no need to monitor everyone’s sexual experience if we just became asexual, genderless, amorphous units. The psychiatric institution has bigger fish to fry than just a few people feeling a little too comfortable in dresses– over half of our population suffers from “feeling good in a dress” syndrome! This paraphilia is called “femininity” and has gone unrecognized for far too long.

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