Being Sane In Insane Places Essay

Critical evaluation of “on being sane in insane places” by David Rosenhan (1973) Since the beginning of the medicine, all science worlds have worked and still have been working on the classification of mental disorders with the purpose of making them easy to be diagnosed with publishing and developing Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel (DSM) (American Psychiatric Association, 2016). Additionally, DSM should be revised in order to provide the newly information about the mental disorders by following the new researches, experiments and new developments. Hence, DSM has a lot of old versions which are DSM I, DSM II, DSM III, DSM III-R, DSM IV, DSM IV-TR and the newest version is DSM 5 which was published in 2013. Especially in DSM 5, approximately

Thus, today’s world still argues that the issues of DSM. Furthermore, Cooper (2004) asserted that 3 issues of DSM that lead to rise the doubts about the DSM. Firstly, DSM has a difficulty with the explanations of a disease since it focuses the biological circumstances. Therefore, DSM is skipping the other situations which make people distress or uncomfortable such as economical as well as legal problems. To illustrate, unlike DSM III that was explained the mental disorder by emphasizing the genetic factors, DSM IV was altered the definition of the mental disorder by saying there is no absolute reason to help the defining of it. Moreover, the symptoms of mental disorders are too complex to identify them so that it is not reasonable to expect from the DSM to detect all of them. Secondly, DSM is leaned on the psychiatrists’ observations and that observations easy to be affected from theories of psychiatry. That’s why, their observations could be impacted or shaped by these theories. Finally, DSM is suffering from being a part of medical insurance and that lead to rise the force of DSM to diagnose. Consequently, that diagnose increase the