Diagnosis with DSM (Interview with a Psychologist)

In this video, Dr Ben Bullock interviews Professor Greg Murray about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Part of the 'Interview with a Psychologist' series.

[@xoxoamirtha]

Great interview, I could listen to this man chat for ages - great storyteller

[@dominicvo1]

Thank you so much for this very valuable insight to DSM from an independent intellectual that has no connections to the pharmaceutical industry.

[@nitronixasd]

A very interesting interview with some powerful points made with regards to DSM-5. Many thanks!

[@SwinburneCommons]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@SelfishNeuron]

Wonderful interview very valuable information!

[@yourrnamee1280]

As a person that has been traumatised by psychiatry and felt the flow on effects of their persuasive ways on the population, I worked out everything that you have just said already. I am however grateful that you are talking about this. I wish more people would realise or believe your words because it means nothing coming from me.

[@SwinburneCommons]

Hi yourr namee, because we publish videos on behalf of many Swinburne academics unfortunately we aren't always able to source replies to individual questions, but thanks for leaving a comment :)

[@urlyborromeo5542]

In the old saying of fortune tellers in the first century in her crystal ball.Scrying into the dead of the night.Remember the word niche or niche?In clairvoyance they called it synchronization maybe one of the most importantant reasons why some disorders are synchronized.The sociologists synchronized it using niche or niche?Jean Piaget ,Erik Erikson ,Sigmund Freud, et al used somewhat a hinged formed of synchronization.

[@jiinglesgreen3869]

Great insight to the DSM.

[@ryanfauxbia]

Very interesting! Thank you ;)

[@vanessagabriel2323]

Thank you I’m psychology student and I love DSM and with this explanation I think is more interesting understand a little bit more. I’m from Ecuador, sorry my English.

[@ebrahimzade]

My understanding is that RDoC (developed by NIH) is a research tool and is not designed to replace DSM as a diagnostic tool. Am I right?

[@alexbarker4260]

No

[@xalemonzaluthiusonesis9371]

This is why diagnosis shouldn't be used so meaningfully, just from the individual, patient perspective. Instead, focus on *symptoms*, those are real, at least, and will inevitably improve their life to be treated. However, schizophrenia does have some physical correlations, such as microglia (synaptic pruning cells) being higher than average humans and decreased grey matter in thee brain-also-cells literally being out of _order_ .

[@matsta177]

So we don't have manual then. Well ...that makes our jobs harder.