Childhood trauma Construction Personality disorders 
Mad in America
MAY 29, 2025
Ultimately, when DSM-5 was published in 2013, the manual retained the descriptive stance adopted for DSM-III, which had ducked specifying any biological causation for the disorders. Robert Spitzer, who headed up the construction of DSM-III, acknowledged he knew of no such evidence apart from the few disorders I cited above.
Mad in America
JUNE 3, 2025
And none better to start with than the diagnoses labeled personality disorders. They comprise a group of diagnoses that do catastrophic damage to the person who is taught to identify with them. In my two years of regrettable service I did not find anyone whose personality seemed to be disordered (whatever that means).
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