While working at a mental health clinic in Harlem years ago, I got used to hearing the most traumatic stories I could have ever imagined; they were the normal way to live for many of my clients.
One day a woman in her 40s who lived in a house where drug’s were sold and had gone through a frightful marriage before her husband was imprisoned, asked me how she could know if her son was traumatized.
As a then-inexperienced clinician, I took the last version of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) off my shelf the same way a cowboy would take out his pistol from his belt, ready to shoot off a diagnosis. Diagnosis Tools The last version of the DSM at that time was the IV edition of the handbook produced by the American
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