Rob: Why don't you talk about that?
BB: Well I think I have been. It's based on the concept that
these are discrete diseases when there is no indication that they are diseases.
It is arbitrary. It is both over exact and inexact. Five of the following eight
symptoms, why not six, why not seven. Totally arbitrary and if you take a look
at it, well it pretends that there's distinctions between these disorders and
they're discrete. In fact, the problems that people face in life are not
discrete. And so it's a classification system that is being projected onto
people's problems that do not fit people's problems. And then everyone is
trained to project these diagnoses so that they try to come up with the same
diagnoses and have interrelated reliabilities. But again, besides there's low
inter-rater reliability. Even high inter-rater reliability would not have
proven that any of this has any meaning. So I could train 16 people to, in the
following 17 symptoms, to recognize these are indications that people, that the
person is actually from Mars and not from Earth. Even if I got them all to
recognize and make the same decisions, that doesn't mean that any of the people
that they've recognized are from Mars, or that anyone's from Mars. That's the
problem with the DSM, there is no foundation to it what so ever.
Rob: Okay, so.
BB: But what it is--
Rob: INAUDIBLE 26:24
Are you saying that there's nobody that has mental illness problems?
BB: Yes and no. If my mental illness you mean an illness, which
is a physical thing. That is somehow mental, then I would say, no, no one has
mental illness.
Rob: I have to say -
BB: Let me finish my thought. If by this you mean, does anyone
have emotional problems and gets confused, and so on, of course people do.
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
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He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
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more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)
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