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  • Paperback: 270 pages
  • Publisher: Aldine de Gruyter (December 31, 1992)
  • Language: English
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  • ISBN-13: 978-0202304328
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4.0 out of 5 starsA peek into psychiatry's dirty kitchen
By Mira de Vries on July 10, 2011
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Kirk & Kutchins are known for their critiques of the DSM. After this book they published Making us Crazy in 1997 (with their names turned around, Kutchins & Kirk). Neither of the university libraries in Amsterdam have the 1997 book, because they are underfunded, or because criticizing psychiatry has become taboo? Either way, I was motivated to read The Selling of DSM because I kept running into this title in other books critiquing the DSM, such as by Boyle, Caplan, and Horwitz.

It opens promisingly with a delightful quote from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass:

"What's the use of having names," the Gnat said, "if they won't answer to them?" "No use to them, said Alice, but it's useful to the people that name them, I suppose."

Throughout the book I found myself nodding, not only in agreement, but also because I kept falling asleep. The book is incredibly boring. It needn't have been that way. Many names that become familiar once you've been reading on this subject for a while march across its pages, such as Sabshin, Andreasen, and the Big Star of the DSM, Robert Spitzer. The book could have read like a psychiatric soap.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsWhat Psychiatry? can it be done ethically?
By C. Beato on October 13, 2014
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This two guys have been doing a lot of work in passing the message of the problems with the Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. Although this book goes back a decade or so and speaks on the DSM III. No two have done more for telling the public and the professionals the LACK OF (as in nothing) science reliability and validity. This guys taught me a lot. You should look the internet for some of their position papers. Which they up date this book, but there are numerous other books and journal articles coming out about the problem with psychiatry and how it will effect the general public.

Too bad the United States are so science illiterate, they have not any idea in what dangerous and possible harm they live in. The American Psychiatric Association should be legally suite for malpractice. The time is ripe, if only the attorneys knew a little science to understand how dangerous this whole problem is. And how much the APA is not willing to give it up. There is money to be made, follow the money.
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