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The Book of Woe - The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry (Paperback)
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"Gary Greenberg has become the Dante of our psychiatric age, and
the DSM-5 is his Inferno." --Errol Morris
Since its debut in 1952, the American Psychiatric Association's
"Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" has set
down the "official" view on what constitutes mental illness.
Homosexuality, for instance, was a mental illness until 1973. Each
revision has created controversy, but the DSM-5 has taken fire for
encouraging doctors to diagnose more illnesses--and to prescribe
sometimes unnecessary or harmful medications.
Respected author and practicing psychotherapist Gary Greenberg
embedded himself in the war that broke out over the fifth edition,
and returned with an unsettling tale. Exposing the deeply flawed
process behind the DSM-5's compilation, "The Book of Woe" reveals
how the manual turns suffering into a commodity--and made the APA
its own biggest beneficiary.
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