SY232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, Biological Psychiatry, General Idea
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The nal one came out in 2013. every revision isn"t just about science but also about politics: scott 1990- ptsd in the dsm 3- came out in 1980. However vietnam war was just breaking out into a train wreck war which they didn"t see coming and took out. 1974- great political event in american psychiatry. in dsm 1 and 2 there were treatments of homosexuals as if it were a psychiatric disorder. but due to the large liberalization. 60s this was a big debate whether pms was a psychiatric disorder. Pmdd is back in the dsm 5. in the book, its only a disorder if you think its a disorder. the fact that its in the book has its implications and thats what this article is about. Wednesday, september 20, 2017 psychiatrists started saying more and more people were depressed.
