Leading psychiatrists predict that within ten years psychiatry may conclude schizophrenia and bipolar disorder do not exist as distinct entities.
“if psychiatry has to say in ten years, as some leading psychiatrists are speculating, that there's no such thing as schizophrenia. There's no such thing as bipolar disorder. That will tend, I suspect, to have pretty bad effects on people's trust Mhmm. In”
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disputableWhether leading psychiatrists publicly state that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are not distinct diagnostic entities, or whether major psychiatric organizations formally revise diagnostic frameworks to eliminate these categories.
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