The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry By Gary Greenberg

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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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“Mental illness is not real, but let’s pretend it is” : DSM5You might think the title or my review is an exaggeration or misstatement of the raison d’etre for any DSM but in fact one of the tenets of this volume, the DSM 5, as well as Book of Woe, is that in fact mental illnesses are artificial and artificially constructed categories that have no reality. Psychiatrists are counseled, within the manual’s pages, against the “reification” of mental disease, that is, turning what is a concept into a real thing, even as the entire DSM purports to describe “reality” in terms like “schizophrenia” and “bipolar disorder” as well as other “oppositional defiant disorder” and other questionable maladies of modern living.Book of Woe is a history of the development of DSM 5 but it is also a fundamentally a critique of Psychiatry, even as the author, a psychologist, confesses he benefits financially from using the very manual he (mostly) disparages.Well-written and even entertaining, this book is a must read and an eye opener for anyone who has ever trusted their psychiatrist to know what she or he is doing when making a diagnosis.

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