The power to define who is or is not crazy is more or less down to the
American Psychiatric Association and its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders (DSM). In Making Us Crazy, Herb Kutchins and
Stuart Kirk peel back the scientific veneer on this psychiatric bible to expose
the politics, personalities and preconceptions behind it. The campaigns that got
homosexuality out of the DSM, and post-traumatic stress disorder in, are
especially well described. But reader, beware—there’s probably a diagnosis
for diagnosis-doubters. Published by Constable, £14.99, ISBN 0094797102.
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