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Title: DSM-IV-TR: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders): Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ... & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
Author: American Psychiatric Association
ISBN: 0890420254
EAN: 9780890420256
4Rev Ed. Edition
943 Pages
Publisher: American Psychiatric Press Inc.
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 1994-07-31

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2006-02-28 Fiction

To be honest as a work of complete fiction I found it a little thin on the ground plot wise and I didn't recognise any of the characters in it.
If you felt a chill down your spine at another customer review of this book that begins with the gloating conceited claim "The human psyche captured!" then the chances are at some point you have been or know someone who has been on the recieving end of treatment based on this reductive and "scientific" tomb.
Possible the most dangerous and damaging book since Mein Kampf -DSM IV carries on the tradtion of the American Psychiatric Association in reducing infinitley complex human behaviour into a series of parcelled, discreet, packaged, "illnesses" that powerful pharmacuetical companies, media obsessed reactionary governments and risk obsessed health services can target medication and "treatment" at in order that people no longer act like they are "insane".
Be aware that this book and the tradition it represents were the ringleaders for most of the horrors perpetrated on people diagnosed as suffering from a mental illness in the last century - patients were forcibly marched to labotomy operations and repeated electric shock treatments on the basis of a diagnosis from the psychiatric body that publishes this book. Psychiatrists involved in the early formations of this book were happy chair-leaders for eugenics and forced experiments on asylum populations.
Anyone even vaguely familiar with the history of DSM classifications (homosexuality was, until the 1980s, on its list of "mental illnesses") should regard this present wolume with little more than cynicism and contempt.
Only recently someone left the organisation responsible for this book after they had pointed out that on the basis of diagnosis from this book in some American schools up to a third of its children were classed as having ADHD and treated with drugs almost chemically identical with cocaine and ampthetamines.
It is important for anyone coming to this material for the first time that they should recognise that for a growing number of increasingly vocal nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, and most importantly psychiatric "patients", DSM IV represents everything that is rotten in psychiatry and the mental health field.