A Critique of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the DSM

By Bonnie Burstow. 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• The DSM and its lure of legitimacy (2013, background): “Instead, the DSM has been described as a ‘tool through which a hegemonic worldview is imposed’ (Burstow, 2005: 435), whereby ‘social, moral or religious prejudice [. . . is] masked as scientific judgment’ (Butler, 1999: 21).”
• Trauma Theory Without Feminism? Evaluating Contemporary Understandings of Traumatized Women (2013, background): “As practitioners, we have often pathologized the very behaviors that have helped people to survive (Burstow, 2005).”