Is psychiatry only helping itself? Listen to James Davies on BBC Radio 4’s Today

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Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good by James DaviesThe Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) published, by the American Psychiatric Association, is the tool widely used to diagnose psychiatric disorders. Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good by James Davies, available now, reveals for the first time the true human cost of an industry that, in the name of helping others, has actually been helping itself.

Listen to James Davies talk about Cracked and the damning charge against psychiatry on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme here (at 1:50:38).

Mark Piesing in the Independent is also debating the relevance of DSM in the future: ‘this could be the last edition of the DSM as we will no longer need checklists to define who is not normal’.

Cracked is available now in paperback from all good bookshops and as an ebook. You can find out more about Cracked here.