> They tell us that we only need to treat people who are not "normal" if those people have trouble functioning in their day to day lives.
False. Homeless people are automatically given a diagnosis -- automatically and without consent -- in order to receive public assistance. You're living in a dream world. Modern psychology doesn't ask us what's wrong with us, it tells us. More evidence:
Quote: "... according to the more recent NCS-R data, it’s not really 1 in 4 Americans who could be diagnosed with a mental disorder in any given year — it’s 1 in 3!"
Quote: " While DSM has been described as a “Bible” for the field, it is, at best, a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each. The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been “reliability” – each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness is its lack of validity."
> No they do not.
Check your facts.
Title: "Determining What Is Normal Behavior and What Is Not"
Link: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fighting-fear/201305/det...
There are ten thousand more just like it.
> They tell us that we only need to treat people who are not "normal" if those people have trouble functioning in their day to day lives.
False. Homeless people are automatically given a diagnosis -- automatically and without consent -- in order to receive public assistance. You're living in a dream world. Modern psychology doesn't ask us what's wrong with us, it tells us. More evidence:
Quote: "... according to the more recent NCS-R data, it’s not really 1 in 4 Americans who could be diagnosed with a mental disorder in any given year — it’s 1 in 3!"
Link: http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/05/03/mental-heal...
> Thus, a person hearing voices can go on hearing those voices if they are okay with it.
Not if he has any property -- his relatives will have him committed. You are very clearly not conversant with modern psychological practice.
The above abuses explain why the DSM is being abandoned, and by abandoning the DSM, society is rejecting all current psychological practice.
Link: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...
Quote: " While DSM has been described as a “Bible” for the field, it is, at best, a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each. The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been “reliability” – each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness is its lack of validity."
-- from the current director of the NIMH.