ABSTRACT
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the so-called "Bible" of psychiatry, has been controversial since its first publication in 1952. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) psychology today focuses on research and what are deemed as natural scientific clinical tools of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. As with psychiatry and the DSM, STEM approaches have been the object of grave criticism. In fact, as the author shows, there is a mounting body of epigenetic research clearly demonstrating where distress, chemical abuse/dependency, and a host of physical ailments come from. The interface of aletheia and trauma is one of the difficult aspects about exploring the aletheia of human distress. Discrete, countable traumas such as those studied by the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) researchers and the kind of relentless relational trauma the author have outlined here are each quite destructive on their own.
