Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders

Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry: Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research

This book has been written by Jeffrey Poland and Serife Tekin. The abstract says: “The subject of the book is the culture of crisis and controversy that exists in contemporary mental health research, following the publication of the fifth edition of…
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Are you mentally ill, or very unhappy? Psychiatrists can’t agree

This article by Sophie McBain has been published in The New Statesman. It begins: “One afternoon in December 2004, Samantha* left her house in northern England and walked to the nearby river. She tried not to think about her five young…
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It’s Time for Us to Stop Being So Defensive About Criticisms of Psychiatry

This article by psychiatrist Dr. Awais Aftab has been published in the Psychiatric Times. It begins: “I read the article “ It’s Time for Us to Stop Waffling About Psychiatry ”2 by Daniel Morehead, MD, with great interest, particularly since it makes frequent references to some of my work in Psychiatric…
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Book of Lamentations

“DSM-5 arranges its various strains of madness solely in terms of the behaviors exhibited. This is a recurring theme in the novel, while any consideration of the mind itself is entirely absent. In its place we’re given diagnoses such as ‘frotteurism,’…
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The Illusions of Psychiatry

This article (2011) by Dr. Marcia Angell (ex-editor of the New England Journal of Medicine) has been published by The New York Review. It begins: “In my article in the last issue, I focused mainly on the recent books by psychologist…
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Is It Time to Reconsider the ‘Disease Model’ of Mental Health?

“A prominent U.K. psychologist believes we should change the way we talk about depression, anxiety, and other forms of psychological distress” This article has been written by Markham Heid and published on the Elemental website. It begins: “In2013, the British Psychological…
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Psychological Formulation as an Alternative to Psychiatric Diagnosis

“… we might be in the very strange position of admitting, as one psychiatrist has pointed out, that psychiatry is ‘something very hard to justify or defend—a medical specialty that does not treat medical illnesses’ …”Dr. Peter Breggin, 1993, p….
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Cured: How mental illness was used as a tool against LGBT rights

“In 1952 the APA’s manual had defined being gay as a ‘sociopathic personality disturbance’. It gave a supposedly scientific rationale to prejudices already widespread in the US and elsewhere.” Vincent Dowd reports for the BBC concerning the documentary film Cured: “Until…
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The Future of Mental Health: Deconstructing the Mental Disorder Paradigm

This book has been written by psychotherapist Dr. Eric Maisel. The publishers say: “The Future of Mental Health drills to the heart of the current mental health crisis, where hundreds of millions of individuals worldwide receive unwarranted ‘mental disorder diagnoses.’ It paints…
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