While DSM IV was a treatment manual at all, It moved the various condition's and human malfunctions from popular uses and set them into stereotypes labels. Each diagnosti label with criteria that had to me resent in order to properly belong to inclusion in a specific category. While this was very useful and every professional today that deals in any way with mental health issues welcomes that aspect of it. There were however some unexpected consequences, when such things a neurasthenia, neurosis, hysteria and complexes were excluded as being too vague. They continue of course in dictionaries and some pop psychology usages.
The rise of all sorts of lesser specialized counseling professions other than Psychologist PhD and Psychiatrist MD occurred as a necessity, because of the massive dominance of neurosis and socially inappropriate behavior that existed. The usage now of tradition names were replaced Cyclic Mood disorder, manic depressive became bipolar and many other examples.
Since the time of William James an essential art of education in psychology 101 throught to graduate schools was in part inclusive on hypnotic phenomenon as demoststrative that symptoms, habits and unwanted behaviors could be introduced by suggestion properly given and there fore 'cured' or removed by the same force. Arguments like this, keep the hope of hypnosis very much alive, yet in today's law suit plagued world, it is necessary to place disclaimers, of not fit for any specific purpose and maybe a pseudo-science, just as soon as some benefit is directly mentioned.
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