Re: DSM-IV AND CONSTRUCTIVISM

Ron Wright ( wrightr@u.Arizona.EDU )
Sun, 3 Sep 1995 22:24:37 +22299115 (MST)

JAMES C. MANCUSO writes:
> The basic problem, as I see it, is that the business of dealing with
> unwanted behaviors has been turned over to the medical profession, and the
> whole approach to working with problematic behavior has been cast in terms of
> treatment.

Jim/all,

While I am sympathetic to the overall tone of your comment, a complicating
factor with DSM is that while it is superficially about treatment, it is in
many important ways about _payment_. You have to bother a _lot_ of people
to get free room and board these days....

Ron

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