Political Apathy Disorder
Proposal for a New DSM Diagnostic Category
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9022010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geoffry D White (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-57 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1678 • E-ISSN: 1552-650X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022167803259255 |
| OpenAlex | W1975400620 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 11 |
Political Apathy Disorder (PAD) is proposed as a new DSM diagnostic category for the failure to develop a social conscience. The essential feature is a pervasive pattern of failing to help reduce human suffering in the world combined with overconsumption of society’s limited resources. Those suffering from PAD fulfill the basic DSM criteria of a mental disorder: distress, disability, and increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom. It is proposed that failure to achieve the characteristics necessary to live a constructive moral life that benefits society should be considered grounds for inclusion in the diagnostic nomenclature
Apathy · Cognition · Distress · Economics · Overconsumption · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Cultural Differences and Values · Law · Psychology · Psychology of Development and Education · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
The High Price of Materialism
In a Different Voice
Selective Activation and Disengagement of Moral Control
Discovering the World in the Individual
Consuming the Earth
A Proposed Category for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
Individual Orientation Toward Engagement in Social Action
The Poverty of Affluence
Moral Disengagement in the Perpetration of Inhumanities
Political conservatism as motivated social cognition
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2012 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |