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Making Us Crazy: DSM : the Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders (Hardcover)

by Herb Kutchins (Author), Stuart A. Kirk (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: The Free Press (25 Aug 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0684822806
  • ISBN-13: 978-0684822808
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,166,607 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Making Us Crazy is a powerful and challenging book which forces us to question the labels which are now commonly imposed on us by the American bible of mental syndromes.' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A challenge to the idea that all behaviours are "disorders", 25 Nov 2000
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This review is from: Making Us Crazy: DSM - The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders (Psychology/self-help) (Paperback)
Attention all mental health practitioners! Do you strive to be "evidence based" in all that you do? Do you accept only scientific studies as constituting "evidence" on topics of diagnosis and treatment?

Most importantly, do you choose to refer to the DSM-IV (or earlier editions) to make definitive, scientific diagnoses?

Well, read this book to have your blinkers removed! The authors (a professor of social work and a professor of social care) argue persuasively that a large number of the identified behavioural disorders are defined because of political, social and economic reasons, sometimes with no scientific backing at all - sometimes even in direct contradiction to scientific evidence available.

This book however is no "anti-psychiatry" rant. Instead, the authors acknowledge the "reality" of mental illness, and the pain and suffering that it causes to many people and their families.

What they do object to is the increasing "medicalisation" of behaviours which never before have been considered "disorders" and which stigmatises the individual AND significantly alters peoples' rights in areas such as the courts and employment.

Don't unthinkingly refer to the DSM in the assumption that it is a valid, scientific resource...read this book and have your assumptions about mental disorders challenged.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must for would-be psychologists et al, 5 Dec 2000
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This was on my wish list and some kind soul bought it for me. This was a book I couldn't put down. Some of the articles are disturbing as some things we take for granted about mental illness appear to have been made up by social and environmental stigma. SPOOKY!!!!
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