Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

They Say You’re Crazy: How The World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal

13th October 2021 0 Comments

This book by Paula Caplan, published in 1996, looks at the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). In 2013 the most recent DSM edition (DSM-5) was produced, expanding even further – to well over 600 – the number of…
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Shyness: How Normal Behaviour Became a Sickness

4th October 2017 0 Comments

The publishers of this book (by Christopher Lane, published 2009) say: “In the 1970s, a small group of leading psychiatrists met behind closed doors and literally rewrote the book on their profession. Revising and greatly expanding ‘The Diagnostic and Statistical…
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