Scott Alexander discusses the incoherent wish for an apolitical psychiatric classification in a recent blogpost on Astral Codex Ten. His post is in response to assertions that it is better for classifications to eschew social and political influences because when they don’t do so, it results in errors like the DSM classifying homosexuality as a disorder. Alexander argues that “The people asking for apolitical taxonomies want an incoherent thing. They want something which doesn’t think a...| www.psychiatrymargins.com