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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

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This was embarrassing because I was on a long, overseas trip during which I had talks and seminars to give. This is not to let the pharmaceutical companies, the government drug-approving bodies, and the doctors who write the scripts without thinking off the hook. It happened again three months later.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Five)

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97 Allen Frances, 683 and other prominent figures in the field, including Insel 684 and his predecessor Steven Hyman, 685 acknowledge that the disorders in the DSM manual have never been validated as discrete illnesses, and that the diagnostic categories are constructs. The seminar was very long, 14 pages, with 142 references.