Will Self

Why America’s attitude to mental illness is dangerously deluded

The DSM, America’s diagnostic manual, encourages therapists, insurance companies and Big Pharma to collude in the bogus labelling of many disorders, says Allan V. Horwitz

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  • DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible

    Allan V. Horwitz

    Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 215, £26

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