Akshata and Christian explore the flaws in diagnostic psychiatry by discussing Gary Greenberg’s “The Book of Woe,” an expose and critique of the making of the DSM-5. In this first part of our conversation, we discuss the problems that underlie the classification human suffering through diagnosis, despite the agency and identity that diagnosis can provide to people. We also consider sociological factors like the influence of money, insurance, and systemic bias on answering the important question: “What is a mental disorder?”
Show Notes and the blog can be found here: https://workbyakshata.wordpress.com/2022/01/30/6-does-the-dsm-need-a-rethink-the-book-of-woe-pt-1/(opens in a new tab)
Follow The Expanding Brain Podcast on twitter: https://twitter.com/brain_expanding
Email us with any questions or topic ideas at expandingbrainpodcast@gmail.com
Our personal twitters are: https://twitter.com/artbyakshata and https://twitter.com/blkWittgenstein