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To maintain, then, as do Kutchins and Kirk, that "having an operational procedure for determining whether a phenomenon belongs in a class, such as the checklist of symptoms in DSM , does not substantiate what that construct or class is," is to completely misunderstand how the DSM works.
Kutchins and Kirk appear to believe that attaching diagnoses to victims must necessarily be in the service of evil conservatism, but pathologizing misfortune is a technique more often employed by the left than the right--by those, that is to say, who want to mitigate responsibility by drawing attention to its causes, rather than those who want to assign blame.
To assume, though, as do Kutchins, Kirk, and many other left-oriented critics, that psychiatry is an inherently sinister enterprise, and that diagnosis--labeling people--is mean, is to ignore many of the ways psychiatry is used.
To Kutchins and Kirk, this kind of ad hoc list-making is not science but politics.
Kutchins and Kirk like to refer to the DSM as "psychiatry's bible," implying that it inspires reverence and is in need of suspicious interpretation, but the DSM is better described as psychiatry's dictionary.