Why is the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manaual of Statistical Disorders, Fifth Edition) criticized?

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For those who know not, it is a compendium of psychiatric conditions that are reviewed with every edition with tthe latest edition being DSM-5 TR published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).

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The DSM it criticized due to perceived political influence into its classifications and the utterly arbitrary way in which disorders are classified. Basically it’s a largely unscientific manual trying to pretend it has scientific weight.

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