EP. 78 A Year in Review: What Is The DSM of Mental Disorder With An Important Disclaimer

This was a podcast we did earlier this year to begin the conversation regarding the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorder with an important disclaimer. In order to re-engage the conversation of counseling people who have been highly psychologized, we wanted to review this episode to set up our episode next week regarding (OCD | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder).

Here are the notes from earlier this year on this episode. Stay tuned next week as we continue in our "unpacking diagnoses" mini series: unpacking OCD.

The disclaimer is to help pastors, biblical counselors, and lay leaders to engage the culture with this material.

– Understanding the DSM and its terms

– Not feeling intimidated by labels

– Diagnostic damnation - the label becomes the person’s identity

– Everyone has a worldview, a lense, a conceptual lens in which they view everything

– Secular psychology pushes, what does my theory say - so our theory informs our methodology

– The DSM is the bible of Psychiatry

– when we encounter these labels, we’re not counseling them, we're counseling the heart - according to scripture