...from our perspective, we succeeded in identifying and establishing communication among the more ardent DSM skeptics in the U.S. and Europe. Largely via social media, this cohort succeeded in reaching out to thousands more and was at the core of the barrage of criticism loosed on the new DSM. I believe that, collectively, we had a large hand in discrediting the DSM and in leading the NIMH, less than a month before its mid-May publication, to publicly reject the DSM as its primary research classification tool. In short, we accomplished two of our principal objectives — exposing the DSM’s construct or scientific validity as a myth and disrupting the APA’s relationship with one of its principal supporters, the National Institute of Mental Health. Which brings us to the next phase of our collective endeavor [the NO-DSM Diagnosis Campaign].
http://www.madinamerica.com/2013/12/dsm-5-boycott-enters-2nd-phase-primer-dsm-diagnosis-campaign/
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