Unpublished OpnionsDiagnoses in Clinical Psychology and PsychiatryIs aware that medical diagnoses are metaphors for understanding the behavior and spirituality of our species and that medical diagnoses are not concrete nouns referring to physical objects of precise and universally accepted dimensions? Some say the greatest contribution of Freud was to reintroduce and apply the wisdom of the antiquities to medical science in his day. Edith Hamiltons (Greek) Mythology, and the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders4th ed. (DSM-IV) are simply two different metaphorical interpretations of humankinds external and internal struggle for meaning and comfort. A therapist who thinks Mythology is based superstition and the DSM-IV is based on science may have a short sighted view of his or her work.
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