Mental Disorders: The Book Of Woe
So what’s really wrong with you? The APA (American Psychiatric Association) has got your number or, rather, your diagnosis. And it is all laid out in the DSM-5. Whazzat? The revised list of mental disorders wherein your neighborhood psychiatrist can find you, label you and make you eligible or ineligible for insurance coverage for the sometimes quite harmful drugs he will prescribe. So says psychologist Gary Greenberg in his new Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry. According to Greenberg that branch of medicine is now in danger of becoming a sideshow turned into a racket.