Reddit reviews Creating Mental Illness

A great book: Creating Mental Illness by Allan Horwitz. Really fascinating analysis of the DSM, along with a history of how it ended up the way it is. I highly recommend it. (I got mine from my university's library... it's pretty widely available so if you have library access you won't need to buy it.)

Edit: Let me add that I do understand the need for the DSM, and I'm not opposed to its use. However, I do think it's important that we really understand it and use it correctly, and it's very easy for misuse to occur. I also think that we're over-pathologizing a lot of behaviors that don't need it.

Alles Gut. Deutsch war mein zweites Hauptfach im Uni. Vielleicht sollen Sie "Creating Mental Illness" lesen. (http://www.amazon.com/Creating-Mental-Illness-Allan-Horwitz/dp/0226353826/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416004425&sr=8-1&keywords=creating+mental+illness)

...oder die Schriften von "The Sociology of Mental Illness" http://www.amazon.com/Sociology-Mental-Illness-Comprehensive-Reader/dp/0195381718/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416005111&sr=1-1&keywords=the+sociology+of+mental+illness. Ich verrate dass Sie das Buch nicht kaufen, anstatt die teilen von Bibliothek zu unterladen. Ein paar von meine Klassen hat die Schriften von dieses Buch übersprachen, und die hatten uns immer darüber gedachtet.

In case my German is as rusty as I fear it is: Creating Mental Illness provides a great history of treatment in the US, and The Sociology of Mental Illness has a ton of good journal articles for studying all brought together into one book. Rather than buying the whole book, I recommend using a library to gain access to the individual articles and saving those instead.