Conference paper
TREATMENT IN PSYCHIATRY IN A NEW CLASSIFICATION ATTIRE IN THE SHADOW OF SILENCE AND UNPROCESSED TRAUMAS FROM THE PAST. THE IMPERATIVE OF PERFECTIONISM IN THE PRESENT AND SHAME AND DISCOMFORT IN THE FUTURE
Alija Sutović
; Department of Psychiatry, University Clinical Centre Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina Faculty of Medicine, University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
The new classification systems in psychiatry have dressed both patients and psychiatrists in completely new attire. One (DSM -5)
is widely used and critics are hardly at peace with the psychiatry of normal living conditions and phenomena and a missed
opportunity to 'save the normal'. The second attire is still standing on the mold in tailoring salon in Geneva (ICD-11) and is being
ornamented by the online testing through a global network of clinical practice, now around 15,000 clinicians and mental health
professionals, before it is distributed to psychiatrists worldwide.
The objective is to (be) treated better and to keep quiet. We remain silent for fear, shame and insecurity in the face of devastating
tendencies in the modern world. Unprocessed traumas and mourning from the past in current global setting support various mental
disorders. Trauma leaves strong emotions, so if it has not been processed and the loss has not been mourned, these charged emotions
get the characteristics of emotional volcanoes or timed bombs that are easily activated. Unprocessed group trauma among political
or ideological leaders can become a means of strong manipulation of the masses. And the 'masses' are immersed, globally, in the
mentalization of cognitive achievement at the expense of the emotional principle.
By forcing competitiveness, perfectionism and narcissism, people try to 'be successful' at all costs. Perfectionism is a phenomenon
that, under the influence of scientific and technological progress, computerization and globalization, increasingly affects the
psychosocial development, functioning of the individual and society as a whole. Perfectionism is increasingly associated with anxiety
and affective disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, eating disorders, and suicidality. Virtual reality, virtual sexuality, pornography,
pervasive alienation and loneliness create a position of shame and cultural discomfort, which is so far the price of
conformism. But in the Manichean prism, we might also call the new age an era of shamelessness and perversion in the broader
sociocultural context leaving open the key question:"Can modern civilization avoid self-destruction?"
Keywords
treatment in psychiatry; new classification; silence; unprocessed traumas; imperative of perfectionism; shame and discomfort; past; present; future
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Publication date:
19.10.2021.
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