{"id":12988,"date":"2017-10-30T01:19:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T00:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/30\/we-need-to-rethink-how-we-classify-mental-illness-tamara-kayali-browne\/"},"modified":"2017-10-30T01:19:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T00:19:04","slug":"we-need-to-rethink-how-we-classify-mental-illness-tamara-kayali-browne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=12988","title":{"rendered":"We need to rethink how we classify mental illness | Tamara Kayali Browne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psychiatric diagnosis must serve an ethical purpose: relieving certain forms of suffering and disease. Science alone can\u2019t do thatHow do we decide what emotions, thoughts and behaviours are normal, abnormal or pathological? This is essentially what a select group of psychiatrists decide each time they revise the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), a bible for mental health professionals worldwide. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/oct\/30\/we-need-to-rethink-how-we-classify-mental-illness\" target=\"_blank\">We need to rethink how we classify mental illness | Tamara Kayali Browne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychiatric diagnosis must serve an ethical purpose: relieving certain forms of suffering and disease. Science alone can\u2019t do thatHow do we decide what emotions, thoughts and behaviours are normal, abnormal or pathological? This is essentially what a select group of psychiatrists decide each time they revise the Diagnostic and Statistical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}