What is it about?
In this article, Dr. Drescher presents a case of a sexual-minority patient treated by a sexual-minority therapist. The discussant, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Malin Fors, uses the case to reflect on the benefits and limits of the new section of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, 2nd Edition, called “Nonpathological Conditions That Could Need Clinical Attention” (minority stress).
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Why is it important?
The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, Second Edition (PDM-2; Lingiardi & McWilliams, 2017) is a historical contribution: a diagnostic manual that is not just assuming health for previously misunderstood minority groups, but one that takes it even further to name and address minority stress.
Perspectives
The historical battle for minority people to be seen as healthy has been long and thorny. The injustice of pathologization has historically been done to, among others, masturbating women, escaping slaves, poor people, transvestites, and gay and lesbian individuals. To comment on PDM:2´s groundbreaking attempt to acknowledge minority stress, was a pleasure.
Clinical Psychologist Malin Fors
Finnmark Hospital Trust
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This page is a summary of: An appreciation and critique of PDM-2’s focus on minority stress through the case of Frank., Psychoanalytic Psychology, July 2018, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/pap0000199.
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