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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

Mad in America

Our goal was that, by the time the DSM-5 was released, the headlines wouldnt call it the definitive manual of psychiatrythey would call it controversial. It gives us a way to evaluate success and failure, a structure for self-esteem. At the time, the DSM was commonly referred to as the Bible of Psychiatry. We wanted to change that.