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Misdiagnosis

“Drowning in a Sea of Diagnoses”

    picture of a girl drowning

    The author argues that the system is designed to “produce patients rather than health” by medicalising normal human distress and making support dependent on receiving a formal diagnosis.

    Psychiatry’s DSM – just a bunch of opinions

      DSM 4 and DSM 5 books

      Psychiatry’s influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is only based on the consensus of opinions of a small number of American Psychiatric Association psychiatrists, rather than science.