New Scientist—The diagnosis of mental illness needs its own therapy
Three books examine the painful birth of the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – and the flaws behind it.
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Biological psychiatry’s false paradigm—still no proof mental illness is a biological disease
The latest version of the DSM continues the profession’s error of assuming biological roots of all mental illness…
Daily Mail—Why it’s truly bonkers to believe in shrinks
The conclusion (and the argument of this essential book) is obvious: psychiatry is basically bogus – and damaging.
While Feds Fight Over Legitimacy of ‘Mental Disorders’—Millions of Kids Are Still Being Drugged
The American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) billing bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM, finally has been outed for the fraud it is.
Psychiatry’s hour of crisis: new diagnostic manual triggers infighting, boycotts, resignations
200 years after psychiatry was recognized as a medical discipline, a stark question persists: Is psychiatry credible?