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Article: MAKING Us CRAZY: DSM--THE PSYCHIATRIC BIBLE AND THE CREATION OF MENTAL DISORDERS.(Review)
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- Health and Social Work
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- February 1, 2000
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Herb Kutchins and Stuart A. Kirk. New York: Free Press, 1997. 305 pp. $27.50 hardback. ISBN 0-684-82280-6.
Mental illness classification is an ancient and enduring practice that has evolved from a small core of chronic, debilitating mental conditions to over 300 disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders--Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The precursors of the DSM-IV were based on societal planning facilities to care for people with mental illness and were not focused on mental illness research (Munson, 2000). The first edition of the DSM (APA, 1952) was based on the work of Adolph Meyer, ...