Gary Greenberg has become the Dante of our psychiatric age, and the DSM-5 is his Inferno. Errol Morris
Since its debut in 1952, the American Psychiatric Association s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has set down the official view on what constitutes mental illness. Homosexuality, for instance, was a mental illness until 1973. Each revision has created controversy, but the DSM-5 has taken fire for encouraging doctors to diagnose more illnesses and to prescribe sometimes unnecessary or harmful medications.
Respected author and practicing psychotherapist Gary...