Marketing Crazy—manual doctors use to diagnose mental illness has critics fearing a bonanza of over-medication
“Pretty soon everyone’s going to have a mental disorder or two or three…”
Tag Archives: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders
Should We Dump the DSM? Author exposes DSM’s arbitrary & totalitarian influence in treatment of mental/emotional distress
Last week, Blue Rider Press published Gary Greenberg’s The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry, a powerful critique of the entire DSM methodology.
Does your child really have a behavior disorder? Leading therapist reveals how millions of us—including children—are wrongly labeled with psychiatric problems
From depression to anxiety and ADHD, more of us now suffer from mental health problems and need pills to treat them — or so we’re told.
Psychiatry in Crisis! Mental Health Director Rejects Psychiatric “Bible” and Replaces With… Nothing
What is mental illness? Schizophrenia? Autism? Bipolar disorder? Depression? Since the 1950s, the profession of psychiatry has attempted to provide definitive answers to these questions in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
New Scientist: Psychiatry divided as mental health ‘bible’ denounced
The world’s biggest mental health research institute is abandoning the new version of psychiatry’s “bible”…