Abstract
An account of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) can be approached in a variety of way, but in DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible Allan Horwitz takes a pleasingly ecumenical approach, addressing the broad public sphere in which the DSM resides and casting its success in terms of the many interests it serves well. He reviews, in detail, the social movements that have advocated for and against diagnoses—including some of the same movements at different points in time—and the influence of the pharmaceutical industry, both in ways that have expanded and constricted the range of diagnostic criteria. And he is as balanced in his discussion of external influences as intra-professional dynamics, reviewing, for instance, the legacy of the tensions between psychiatry and psychoanalysis, as well as recent conflicts between the American Psychiatric Association and the National Institute of Mental Health. The title refers to the Bible—a...
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