Additional online resources critical of the DSM

By: Ofer Zur, Ph.D.

 

(These resources are not part of the required course readings)

• Thomas Szasz, MD on psychiatric diagnosis and mental Illness
• The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a non-profit dedicated to investigating and exposing psychiatric violations of human rights.
• Bibliography: Radical Therapy, Critical Theory, and Antipsychiatry
• Was the Unabomber paranoid schizophrenic or violent political activist? By Stuart A. Kirk, coauthor of “The Selling of DSM” (1992) and “Making Us Crazy” (1997).
• Book reviews of Making Us Crazy: DSM: The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders by Herb Kutchins, Stuart A. Kirk.
• Critique of Kutchins & Stuart’s book and in defense of the DSM
• Peter R. Breggin, M.D. on Pychiatric Drug Facts
• The Harm Suffered by Many People Because of the DSM
• Dump the DSM By Paul Genova, M.D., and counter point:
  The DSM: Not Perfect, but Better Than the Alternative By Michael First, M.D., and Robert L. Spitzer, M.D.
• How doctors think. Medical mistakes in Diagnosis