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“You can’t disagree with a psychiatrist without getting a diagnosis.”

Fun interview with Gary Greenberg about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual controversy. Greenberg’s much more radical in his dismissal of the latest edition of America’s Icelandic psychosaga than UD‘s buddy Allen Frances (“We agree that the DSM does not capture real illnesses, that it’s a set of constructs. We disagree over what that means. He believes that that doesn’t matter to the overall enterprise of psychiatry and its authority to diagnose and treat our mental illnesses. I believe it constitutes a flaw at the foundation of psychiatry. If they don’t have real diseases, they don’t belong in real medicine. Al’s … really trying to keep scrutiny off of the whole DSM enterprise. That’s why he’s been so adamant that you don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater — he believes that the DSM-IV, for all of its flaws, its still worthwhile. I disagree.”). He has a new book attacking the DSM from many angles. It’s called The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry and its cover is done up just like the posters for Psycho.

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UD is mulling going to Politics and Prose bookstore to hear Greenberg talk. The guy has a sense of humor.

Margaret Soltan, May 3, 2013 1:04PM
Posted in: march of science

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3 Responses to ““You can’t disagree with a psychiatrist without getting a diagnosis.””

  1. dmf Says:

    if you do go pls let us know if cspan has recorded the talk, thanks

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    dmf: Will do.

  3. Van L. Hayhow Says:

    Come on. You absolutely have to go, and, of course, blog about it. NO EXCUSES!

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