Why would you assume that psychiatry online is the last word in this? Why is the medical model your be all and end all of psychological understanding?Affect, mood, emotion, and feeling: semantic considerations | American Journal of Psychiatry
There is considerable variation in the use of words that describe emotional experience and expression. The author illustrates this semantic problem by reviewing the use and definitions of the terms "affect," "mood," "emotion," and "feeling" in some classical and contemporary works of psychiatry...ajp.psychiatryonline.org
I am not here to argue the finer points of psychiatry. I am trying to assist people to understand why dysphoria is not a matter of belief but one of emotion.
You come across to me as somebody that is adopting the trappings of an academic discipline that you don’t actually have real depth of knowledge in. Now, maybe I’m right and maybe I’m wrong in that. But you are making statements that to me seem highly contestable without acknowledging that at all.
And why, in any case, is emotion being presented as distinct from belief? Emotion is mediated through the making of meaning, which includes beliefs.
Dysphoria is often misused to mean the beliefthat you are wrongly gendered rather than the emotional reaction to it.
How convenient for you. If you don’t want to debate it, don’t make the assertions as if they are uncontested truth.
I think it's fair to say a lot of people assume the term "gender dysphoria" to be synonymous with being trans.
You are entitled to your opinion. You appear to want to divert the debate into territory that you want to cover rather than the issue at question. I'm done.
I am a supporter of increased freedom for registration of gender change.
Gender dysphoria: A concept designated in the DSM-5 as clinically significant distress or impairment related to a strong desire to be of another gender, which may include desire to change primary and/or secondary sex characteristics. Not all transgender or gender diverse people experience dysphoria.
And here we go with psychiatry and the DSM again, as if that settles anything.
I'm done with your distraction technique.
You are literally quoting the DSM as if that settles things and then refusing even to acknowledge the controversy that exists around it. If you don’t want to talk about psychology, stop trying to use it as the basis of your arguments.
Final word. Gender dysphoria is defined in DSM 5. Where else is the term defined?
Seriously?
Where else?
You think that psychiatrists are the only ones to have defined dysphoria?
