An explosive critique of the psychiatric profession’s Bible, the DSM, arrives from Gary Greenberg, a noted author and critic of American
psychiatry. Like *Too Big to Fail*’s look at Wall Street, *The Book of Woe*is an inside view of an institution on the brink of disaster—the
American Psychiatric Association, which recently completed the fifth edition of the DSM, a book that guides the allocation of billions of taxpayer dollars for research and treatment and from which the APA expects to reap hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. Professional war broke out over the revision, and Greenberg, who is also a psychotherapist, spent two years embedded with both sides. The resulting account reveals the corruption and incompetence that infects the process by which the APA determines who is mentally ill, what diseases they have, and how they will be treated by doctors, educators, jurors and employers.
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