This work is part of a wider research, conducted around the controversies that sparked the launch of the latest manual. It intends a reading of external factors to psychopathology itself, which explains the current controversies. Elena Levy Yeyati is a doctor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires; psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Buenos Aires; Member of the WAP, Member of the EOL and the Descartes Fundation. Compiler and author of the Lacan's clinic (2013). Author of the DSM in question. A critique of the category of PTSD (in press).