Everyone on the Couch—Today’s Psychiatry Undermines Self-reliance and Morality
City Journal – Autumn 2013 Vol. 23, No. 4 By Theodore Dalrymple Allen Frances, the psychiatrist who edited the fourth edition (1994) of the American…
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Latest edition of psychiatry’s diagnostic manual draws fierce criticism
National Post By Joseph Brean August 5, 2013 Of all the scorn heaped on the new fifth edition of psychiatry’s manual, perhaps the most biting…
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.
Got PMS? Psychiatry has a new mental diagnosis for you
Back in caveman days I understand that women were sent to the woods during their time of the month. Those insensitive cavemen. Actually, cavemen fare pretty well compared to modern psychiatrists.
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.