The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry

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Gary Greenberg has develop into 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 used to be a mental illness until 1973 Every revision has created controversy but the DSM 5 has taken fire for encouraging doctors to diagnose more illnessesand to prescribe infrequently unnecessary or harmful medications Respected writer 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 incorrect process in the back of the DSM 5 s compilation The Book of Woe reveals how the manual turns suffering into a commodityand made the APA its own biggest beneficiary For more than two years writer and psychotherapist Gary Greenberg has embedded himself in the war that broke out over the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders the DSM the American Psychiatric Association s compendium of mental illnesses and what Greenberg calls the book of woe Since its debut in 1952 the book has been regularly revised and with Every revision the official view on which psychological problems constitute mental illness Homosexuality for instance used to be a mental illness until 1973 and Asperger s gained recognition in 1994 only to see its status challenged nearly twenty years later Every revision has created controversy but the DSM 5 the latest iteration has shaken psychiatry to its foundations The APA has taken fire from patients mental health practitioners and former members for extending the reach of psychiatry into daily life by encouraging doctors to diagnose more illnesses and prescribe more therapies frequently medications whose efficacy is unknown and whose side effects are severe Critics including Greenberg argue that the

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