The Most Hated Man in America: Jerry Sandusky and the Rush to Judgment by Mark Pendergrast

Author:Mark Pendergrast [Pendergrast, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sunbury Press, Inc.
Published: 2017-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

Because of their history, their inherent difference from clinical syndromes, and a mystique that developed around many of their names (e.g. “Psychopath,” “Histrionic,” “Borderline”), the personality disorders were always particularly difficult to diagnose. You might be diagnosed as having Narcissistic Personality Disorder by one mental health professional, only to be told by another that you were actually Histrionic. . . . In the process of revising the DSM-IV-TR, the personality disorders panel developed a number of alternative models to get away from the categorical diagnostic system. The most extreme was to dispense with the named categorical diagnoses entirely. However, this idea was dispensed relatively early in the process because many commentators, viewing the information on the DSM-5 website, believed that the categories had inherent value. The DSM-5.0 Work Group members then proposed a compromise in which six would be retained.26

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