Wednesday, December 29, 2010

"[The DSM-IV] fostered an increasing tendency to chalk up life’s difficulties to mental illness and then treat them with psychiatric drugs." 

- Gary Greenberg 
on the doubts of Allen Frances (lead editor of the DSM-IV) 
and the increasing insurgency among psychiatrists against the DSM-5, due out in 2013, and its even laxer criteria for mental illness

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