A coalition from various psychodynamic associations has produced a new diagnostic manual as an alternative to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), the main one currently used by psychiatrists and therapists to give patients a code number for purposes of treatment, research, and prognosis — but mostly health insurance reimbursement.
The new group's manual is the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM), which allegedly “attempts to characterize the whole person — the depth as well as the surface of emotional, cognitive, and social functioning.”
The PDM editors also claim to “require a fuller description of the patient's internal life to do justice to understanding his or her distinctive experience.”
Yeah, well, okay. Beautiful thought. But how it actually executed?
Actually, it seems to be more of the same old thing, with slightly shinier packaging, and an overly complex design philosophy.
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