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Isn't this true of nearly all mental disorders in DSM-5 and ICD-11? We don't really know what mental disorders are and so we don't have objective diagnostic te
by Brybry 16d ago
Isn't this true of nearly all mental disorders in DSM-5 and ICD-11?
We don't really know what mental disorders are and so we don't have objective diagnostic tests for them. [1]
We just have treatments that sometimes work for some people (and with the replication crisis[2] that sometimes is probably a lower value than expected).
[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6732705/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6732705/
[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5835722/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5835722/
- usernametaken29 15d agoI concur that many of the diagnostics methods are small sample sized for psychological tests. However I believe we have a lot more neurological evidence for underlying conditions and mechanisms in some. Schizophrenia for example has clear neurological hypothesis relating to agency and we can clearly tell these patients in a standard MRI. The same cannot be said for ADHD or ASD