Critiques of DSM
Websites:
Beyond Psychodiagnostics (Kenneth Gergen):
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/kgergen1/Psychodiagnostics/index.ht
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Zur Institute: http://www.zurinstitute.com/dsmcritique.html
The Thomas S. Szasz, M.D. Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility:
http://www.szasz.com/szaszwri.html
New Therapist: http://www.newtherapist.com/diagnosis12.html
The Politics of Diagnosis, Feminist Critiques: http://www.cerisemorris.ca/Article_3.htm
Paula Joan Caplan: http://paulajcaplan.net/,
http://www.psychdiagnosis.net/
Knowledge is Necessity, Musings on Mental Health:
http://knowledgeisnecessity.blogspot.com/2009/10/robert-spitzer-anddsm-part-i.html
Critical Psychiatry Network: http://www.critpsynet.freeuk.com/sound.htm
Social Power and Psychological Distress:
http://www.davidsmail.info/introfra.htm
APA, DSM 5: http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx
Articles:
Mayou R, Kirmayer LJ, Simon G, Kroenke K, Sharpe M. Somatoform
disorders: time for a new approach in DSM-V. Am J Psychiatry 2005;
162:847–55.
The Selling of DSM; The Rhetoric of Science in DSM
Teaching Diagnosis from a Postmodern Perspective
Books:
Deconstructing Mental Illness: An Ethnography of Psychiatry, Women, and
the Family, Renu Addlakha