Resumen

PERUZZOLO, Marlon Cardoso  y  VIARO, Renee Volpato. DSM AND DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH CHILDHOOD: THE PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSTIC CLASSIFICATION UNDER DISCUSSION. Mental [online]. 2024, vol.16, n.29, 0007.  Epub 07-Oct-2024. ISSN 1679-4427.  https://doi.org/10.5935/1679-4427.v16n29.0007.

The work aims to critically discuss the logic that permeates the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and demonstrate how its conceptions generate a diagnostic problem that underlies its own supposedly neutral categorical criteria. To this end, it chooses an argumentative approach three of the most controversial childhood diagnoses: bipolarity, autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The conclusions point to the weaknesses of contemporary psychiatry, its contradictions and relationships with the pharmaceutical industry, expressed mainly by the rampant medicalization that pervades mental health therapy.

Palabras llave : Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; Psychiatric diagnosis; Mental health; Child psychiatry.

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