If you were wondering whether or not the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is based on objective
science then consider this: In the 1950's the DSM listed homosexuality as
a mental disorder. In fact, its authors labeled many behaviors that most
of society, at the time, deemed to be bad as diseases or disorders.
However, as popular morals changed so did the DSM; Its entries simply
reflected the mores of the doctors who wrote it. The same goes for its
current entries. Science, though, is supposed to be value-free. A
scientist observes phenomena and develops a hypothesis-and eventually a
theory-that explains the observed phenomena. A scientist doesn't say
anything is "good" or "bad.― What observations led psychiatrists to
conclude that homosexuality was a disorder or disease? While we're at it,
what observations led psychiatrists to conclude that anything in the DSM
is a disorder or disease? There is a problem with declaring that a
behavior or emotional state is a disease or disorder: Emotions and
beliefs (which lead to behaviors) are subjective states, but diseases, by
definition, are physical. A doctor can point to a diseased era of the
brain or body; Nobody can point to a "diseased" behavior or thought. To
say that one is sick because of what he thinks or the way he acts is to
be metaphorical. The cause of this confusion is modern biological
psychiatry's reduction of consciousness to the brain. It is therefore no
surprise that they view everything through the schema of brain chemistry
and biology, while ignoring thinking and feeling and the effects that
they have on our beliefs and behaviors. Does it make sense that a
behavior that a group of people disagree with is really a disease in the
brain? Could it be, instead, that people have different beliefs and
values because of their thinking, or lack there of, and that they have
different preferences because of their emotions and their genes? Could it
be possible that one's being different doesn't mean that one is
“diseased―? After all, values and beliefs are the result of a process
of thinking. People can and do change their values and beliefs based upon
rethinking and reevaluating. Diseased tissue doesn't have beliefs and
values; Humans being do. Diseased tissue doesn't cause beliefs and
values; Thinking does. As for our preferences, most of them, i..e., the
food you like or your sexual preference, are genetic. In the
worldview of Psychiatry, If someone doesn't go along with the status quo,
he or she has a brain disease. If someone displays emotions or has
beliefs deemed by the elite to not be appropriate, he or she has a brain
disease. I can go on and on. Dr. Szasz, the man who exposed, and
continues to expose, the hocus pocus of psychiatry, has many books on
this subject. His works are essential reading in order to understand the
pseudoscience that is psychiatry.