DSM Revision Petition

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American Psychiatric Association

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The DSM Revision Petition is gathering signatures from individuals and organizations calling on the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to require that all diagnoses in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) be based on empirical research. The DSM Revision Petition will collect signatures from June 2008 through December 2009.

"We, the undersigned, support the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) own goal of making its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) a scientific document, based on empirical research and devoid of cultural bias. A diagnosis of a mental disorder can have a severe adverse impact on employment opportunities, child custody determinations, an individual's well-being, and other areas of functioning. Therefore we urge the APA to remove all diagnoses that are not based upon peer-reviewed, empirical research, demonstrating distress or dysfunction, from the DSM. The APA specifically should not promote current social norms or values as a basis for clinical judgments."

We, the undersigned, support the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) own goal of making its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) a scientific document, based on empirical research and devoid of cultural bias. A diagnosis of a mental disorder can have a severe adverse impact on employment opportunities, child custody determinations, an individual's well-being, and other areas of functioning. Therefore we urge the APA to remove all diagnoses that are not based upon peer-reviewed, empirical research, demonstrating distress or dysfunction, from the DSM. The APA specifically should not promote current social norms or values as a basis for clinical judgments.

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# 47:

11:42 pm PDT, Sep 7, Name not displayed, Washington

# 46:

11:01 pm PDT, Sep 7, Name not displayed, Oregon
It's time to take politics and profit out of the DSM by removing diagnoses that have no basis in science, but ar there only to serve a right-wing or pharmaceutical agenda.

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# 45:

8:35 pm PDT, Sep 7, Name not displayed, Washington

# 44:

8:18 pm PDT, Sep 7, C Lynn Anderson, Washington

# 43:

7:47 pm PDT, Sep 7, Name not displayed, Washington
Please end this discrimination by revising the DSM now.

# 42:

7:28 pm PDT, Sep 7, Name not displayed, Washington

# 41:

6:16 pm PDT, Sep 7, Nancy Mordhorst, Washington
It is just wrong to use a broad brush to color all people. Expressing one's sexuality is not a mental disorder. Please rethink and rework this issue.

# 40:

5:14 pm PDT, Sep 7, Bruce Alexander, Washington
Having been in the counseling field for many years I am more inclined to address sexuality on the basis of inappropriate legal behavior, as in desires beyond the scope of consensual agreement between the parties involved or parities not yet able to make the best decisions for themselves as prescribed by law. Our culture continues to change, as do our interpretations of appropriate behavior. We must be careful who decides what is healthy and what is dangerous. Empirical evidence gathered from a wide range of consulting adults should always out way the opinions of the few who have limited experience in the field. Bruce Alexander RC Cht

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# 39:

1:12 pm PDT, Sep 7, Janelle Graham, California
Here's to helping make America a better more honest place to live.

# 38:

12:17 pm PDT, Sep 7, Name not displayed, Montana

# 37:

11:54 am PDT, Sep 7, John Sokol, Georgia

# 36:

11:47 am PDT, Sep 7, Name not displayed, Georgia

# 35:

11:46 am PDT, Sep 7, Tim Murray, Colorado
Consensual sex is not insane. Please do the right thing by defining sanity with science. Thank you.

Radical Intimacy www.radicalintimacy.net

# 34:

11:44 am PDT, Sep 7, Glenda Rider, Maryland
Please change the DSM to reflect actual science.

# 33:

6:23 am PDT, Sep 7, Svein Skeid, Norway
www.ReviseF65.org

# 32:

11:00 pm PDT, Sep 6, Name not displayed, California

# 31:

5:15 pm PDT, Sep 6, Wendy Angulo, Iowa

# 30:

4:00 pm PDT, Sep 6, Name not displayed, Alaska
Good science is the key to proper diagnosis of real illness and disorder, this whole flim-flam is just a retaliation against the supposed 'threat' that this behavior put forward to the status quo.

# 29:

2:56 pm PDT, Sep 6, Name not displayed, Washington

# 28:

2:47 pm PDT, Sep 6, Name not displayed, Alaska
What about Gender Identity Disorder - too many are also discriminated against because they were born in the wrong body.

# 27:

1:26 pm PDT, Sep 6, Doug Holmstrom, Washington

# 26:

1:16 pm PDT, Sep 6, Name not displayed, Minnesota
NCSF Coalition Partner Representative for Minnesota Stocks Debentures and Bonds.

# 25:

12:37 pm PDT, Sep 6, Name not displayed, Washington

# 24:

12:03 pm PDT, Sep 6, Mark Richards, New York

# 23:

11:28 am PDT, Sep 6, Alicia Lewis, Colorado
Please insure all diagnoses that are not based upon peer-reviewed, empirical research, demonstrating distress or dysfunction, from the DSM. Thank you, Alicia

# 22:

11:06 am PDT, Sep 6, Levi Halberstadt, Maryland

# 21:

10:56 am PDT, Sep 6, James Huesmann, Alaska
Base it on the science, not the politics or wanting to charge the insurance companies!

# 20:

10:50 am PDT, Sep 6, Name not displayed, Texas

# 19:

12:31 pm PDT, Aug 10, Name not displayed, Florida
I am a 60 year old vice president of engineering in a national company. I have been transgender my entire life, but have chosen to remain male because of the impact of transitioning on my family. I am a very typical transgender American. I know of what I speak as I serve as the president of one of the largest TriEss chapters in the nation, Phi Epsilon Mu. BTW, I minored in psychology.

www.crosssdressflorida.com

# 18:

10:23 am PDT, Aug 9, Andi Alnwick, New York

# 17:

1:45 pm PDT, Jul 10, Name not displayed, Texas

# 16:

8:18 pm PDT, Jul 7, Thomas Meiring, Ohio

# 15:

7:48 pm PDT, Jul 6, Dianna Ryan, Oklahoma

# 14:

7:16 am PDT, Jul 6, Wal Torres, Brazil
We are in the XXIst century. A new science is emerging - the science of complexity, of te unexpected, the diversity. The science of extreme events, of self-similarity and fractality. The fuzzy logic, the quantic systems. I hope APA will consider good XXIst cemtury science, and not XIXth century's. Cartesian simplicity is not enough to stucy complex systems.

I sign in my name, also Gendercare Gender Clinic's and OII-Organisation Intersex International.

# 13:

7:16 am PDT, Jul 6, Maureen Osborne, Pennsylvania

# 12:

2:23 pm PDT, Jul 3, Mallory Attwell, South Africa

# 11:

10:55 am PDT, Jul 2, David Reisch, Delaware
try to keep it clenical, honest and free of bias.

# 10:

9:51 am PDT, Jul 2, Name not displayed, Florida

# 9:

9:47 pm PDT, Jun 30, Robin Tell, New York
If anyone in the APA doesn't think strict adherence to this condition is a good idea, I'd like very much to know why not. Stick to good science, which can pass muster with the two tests of repeatable research and peer review. This just makes a nice, diligent little safeguard against influence by pharmaceutical companies, for example, or anybody else with a conflict of interest.

# 8:

6:48 pm PDT, Jun 30, Thomas S. Rue, New York
I am a licensed mental health counselor and credentialed alcohol and substance abuse counselor, employed in clinical practice full-time by the State of New York. In my view, there could be no more fundamental improvement to the practice of mental health disciplines than to bring the DSM into line with rigorous science.

http://tomrue.net

# 7:

5:06 pm PDT, Jun 30, Daniel Lyke, California
For years, psychiatric diagnoses based on junk "science" have been used as a mechanism of societal control. Psychiatry can do a great deal to heal itself by starting to turn itself into a science.

# 6:

1:55 pm PDT, Jun 30, Zebulon Watkins, Indiana

# 5:

1:24 pm PDT, Jun 30, Laura Duncan, Massachusetts

# 4:

8:53 am PDT, Jun 30, Name not displayed, Canada
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# 3:

7:48 pm PDT, Jun 12, Kelly Beaton, New York

# 2:

2:45 pm PDT, Jun 12, Charles Moser, California

# 1:

7:58 am PDT, Jun 12, Susan Wright, New York

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