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…”
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Shrink wrapping—A single book has come to dominate psychiatry. That is dangerous
No other major branch of medicine has such a single text, with so much power over people’s lives. And that is worrying. Because in no other branch of medicine is the scientific reality underpinning the pronouncements of doctors so uncertain.
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.
Beginning of the end of the DSM-IV? Feds Move Away from Psychiatry’s Billing Bible
Now, in a move sure to rock psychiatry, psychology and other fields that address mental illness, the director of the National Institutes of Mental Health has announced that the federal agency–which provides grants for research on mental illness–will be “re-orienting its research away from DSM categories”
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.