%0 Journal Article
%T How to Be a Pervert: A Modest Philosophical Critique of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
%A Patrick Singy
%J Revista de Estudios Sociales
%D 2012
%I Universidad de los Andes
%X This paper is divided into three parts. I begin with a short history of the way American psychiatrists have defined mental disorder in general, and paraphilias (sexual perversions) in particular, from the 1950s to 2013. I look at how the different editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) have articulated (or in the case of the future DSM-5, will articulate) the distinction between health and disease. In the second part I suggest how psychiatrists might want to modify their approach to the definition of mental disorder. In the third part I explain why the paraphilias in particular should be removed from the current psychiatric classification of diseases.
%K Psychiatry
%K Mental Disorder
%K Paraphilia (Sexual Perversion)
%K Homosexuality
%K DSM
%K Function.
%U http://res.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/788/index.php?id=788