... a new book chronicles the “unscientific” way that revisions to psychiatry’s bible, "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” were made. Using social anxiety disorder and antidepressant Paxil as examples, it shows how the creation of new mental disorders opened the door to the drug industry and “pathologized” normal behavior.
The number of mental disorders the general population might exhibit leaped from 180 in 1968 to more than 350 in 1994,” notes (Christopher) Lane, Northwestern’s Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor.
Posted by Stubbornson at October 26, 2007 07:42 PM