TY - BOOK AU - Kutchins,Herb AU - Kirk,Stuart A. AU - Kirk,Stuart A TI - Making us crazy: DSM : the psychiatric bible and the creation of mental disorders SN - 9780094797109 (pbk.) : U1 - 616.89075 KUT PY - 1999/// CY - London PB - Constable KW - Human behavior KW - Mental illness KW - Diagnosis KW - Popular works KW - Health and Wellbeing KW - ukslc KW - Psychiatry KW - thema N1 - Originally published: U.S.: Free, 1997; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Doubting Thomas: psychiatric diagnosis and the Anita Hill controversy--2. Pathologizing everyday behaviour--3.The fall and rise of homosexuality--4. Bringing the war back to DSM-- 5. The defeat of masochistic personality disorder --6. Border wars: borderline personality disorder (or, how patients seduce their therapists) --7.The enduring legacy of racism in the diagnosis of mental disorders --8. Diagnosing the psychiatric bible N2 - Making Us Crazy is a powerful and challenging book which forces us to question the labels which are now commonly imposed on us by the American bible of mental syndromes ER -