THOMAS INSEL, WHEN NIMH DIRECTOR IN 2013, STATED THAT THE DSM’S DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORIES LACK VALIDITY, AND HE ANNOUNCED THAT “NIMH WILL BE RE-ORIENTING ITS RESEARCH AWAY FROM DSM CATEGORIES.”; NOT ONLY DOES THE DSM LACK VALIDITY, IN 2012, ALLEN FRANCES (WHO RECENTLY APOLOGIZED FOR DEFINING AUTISM TOO BROADLY AS CHAIR OF THE 1994 DSM-IV TASK FORCE), DETAILED HOW DSM DIAGNOSES LACK RELIABILITY, AS DIFFERENT CLINICIANS RATING THE SAME PATIENT ROUTINELY DISAGREE ON A DIAGNOSIS.
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