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A Newspaper Editorialist Argues That the Use of DSM-IV-TR Diagnostic

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A newspaper editorialist argues that the use of DSM-IV-TR diagnostic labels is destructively antidemocratic,because it enables an elite corps of mental health professionals to subtly control the values and life-styles of the rest of society. First give reasons supporting this argument,then defend the continued use of diagnostic labels.


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Self-Understanding

A person's awareness and assessment of their own personality, feelings, motives, and desires.

Insight Psychotherapies

A group of therapies focusing on understanding the motives, desires, and psychological mechanisms underlying an individual's behavior.

Psychoanalysis

A set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental disorders, developed by Sigmund Freud.

Sigmund Freud

A neurologist from Austria who established psychoanalysis, a therapeutic approach that addresses mental disorders by facilitating conversations between a psychoanalyst and the patient.

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