It could be worse but a non-profit scientific association holding back the advancement of science through locking up knowledge is a serious issue.
The DSM-5 is more problematic. People who get hit strongly on the head often develop an depression. Should psychologists really diagnose them with the same “depression” as the person who’s depressed because his parent died?
I don’t think so. That means we need to develop better vocabulary and better tests to distinguish those two people who get labeled the same via DSM-5 criteria.
It would also be nice to have criteria for depression that are optimized in a way that two psychologists will agree on whether a particular person is depressed.
Let’s say the fMRI people finally do something useful and find a way to diagnose depression via fMRI and give us an objective numerical score for how depressed someone is. Depression_fMRI won’t be exactly the same thing as depression_DSM5.
Maybe we need 5 different depression definitions and test interventions for every depression definition separately to find the best treatment for particular patients.
Looking up the definition of what depression means prevents that process from going forward.
It could be worse but a non-profit scientific association holding back the advancement of science through locking up knowledge is a serious issue.
The DSM-5 is more problematic. People who get hit strongly on the head often develop an depression. Should psychologists really diagnose them with the same “depression” as the person who’s depressed because his parent died?
I don’t think so. That means we need to develop better vocabulary and better tests to distinguish those two people who get labeled the same via DSM-5 criteria.
It would also be nice to have criteria for depression that are optimized in a way that two psychologists will agree on whether a particular person is depressed.
Let’s say the fMRI people finally do something useful and find a way to diagnose depression via fMRI and give us an objective numerical score for how depressed someone is. Depression_fMRI won’t be exactly the same thing as depression_DSM5.
Maybe we need 5 different depression definitions and test interventions for every depression definition separately to find the best treatment for particular patients.
Looking up the definition of what depression means prevents that process from going forward.