What they just admitted is that their discipline is not a science.
They threw another dart and got a different result.
Just because you rename something doesn’t mean it changes. APA is such a joke. So is the entire field, may I say.
Chesterton (and Dale Ahlquist) sums it up nicely: “The worst part of this legacy (of Freud) (ie, the rise of the counseling industry and psychological therapy) is that it has replaced the confessional. Instead of finding forgiveness for our sins, we get the most amazing psycho-babble, which explains that our sins are not sins, and whatever it was we did, it wasn’t our fault.... In the end, we become less responsible for our sinful actions even while we long for a forgiveness that never comes.’
Well stated, I think.
Spot on. This is a good thing. As they destroy their reputation and show themselves to be anti-science, their political decision to “normalize” homosexuality in the DSM gets further airplay. They’re undermining their own cause.
Have you listened to this?
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/204/81-words
It tells the story, quite frankly, but from a pro-homosexual viewpoint, of how the APA DSM was changed. It’s a great listen or read (transcript), but the best thing about it is it’s from the progressive people’s radio of Chicago WBEZ. I love sharing it with liberals.
“admitted is that their discipline is not a science.”
From pseudo-science to political activism. Marx said every facet of life must be politicized, which is one reason they can’t co-exist with Christianity or Judaism.
The debate as to the legitimacy of psychology being a science is taught in psych class. The interesting thing about psychology is that it tries to study traits, but defining traits and measuring them is a problem. From a text: “For our purposes, a psychological trait only exists as a construct—an informed, scientific concept developed or constructed to describe or explain behavior. We can’t see, hear, or touch constructs, but we can infer their existence from overt behavior. In this context, overt behavior refers to an observable action or the product of an observable action...”
As soon as I read that I realized that psychologists are much like Christians in that Christians, or those who believe in the Biblical God, cannot prove He exists but can study Him through constructs. It also seems that we were made in His image—with a negative correlation.
Cohen, R. J., Swerklik, M. L., & Sturman, E. (2013). Psychological testing and assessment : an introduction to tests and measurement (8th ed.). New York: The McGraw Hill.