Gary Greenberg -- The book of woe
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Also see my reviews of the following:

- `Jeffrey A. Lieberman -- Shrinks: The untold story of psychiatry`_

- `Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield -- The loss of sadness`_

The first thing to say is that, in comparison to Lieberman,
Greenberg is much more negative about psychiatry and the ability of
psychiatry to diagnose mental illness or disorder and about the
project to revise and produce DSM-5.

Greenberg is suspicious of any attempt to diagnose and treat mental
conditions that assumes or purports to be scientific or based on
medical, underlying causes.

In some sections this book comes close to being a rant.  But,
perhaps a rant is deserved and needed.  The project to "medicalize"
psychiatry and to claim that psychiatric diagnoses and treatment
have a scientific basis and to claim that psychiatric diagnoses
identify medical, real, underlying causes is one that can have
serious consequences in our lives.  Those claims deserve a severe
critique, whether you agree with Greenberg's conclusions or not.

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