Psychology and More

The coincidences just keep coming. Today in Abnormal Psych we were discussing assessment and diagnosis, and the DSM criteria. PsyBlog has a posting about this very issue.

PsyBlog: Are You Just Shy or Do You Have a Social Phobia?:

Since 1980 the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders used by psychiatrists in diagnosis has included the categories of ’social phobia’ and ’social anxiety disorder’. This suggests that what would previously have been your particular way of being, has become a ‘disorder’ with a biological cause which needs some medication…

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