Psychiatry Disrupted

With the release of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fifth edition (DSM5; American Psychiatric Association 2013), psychiatry has already done much to disrupt itself. The profession’s grand plan to extend its diagnoses and treatments to everything and everyone has jeopardised its credibility among even its own members and allies (see, for example, American Psychological Association Division 32 2011). Still, the release of Psychiatry Disrupted a year later does away with any lingering hope that the global psychiatric enterprise will recover and proceed as usual. While hardly taking the DSM as a point of reference, this book can be seen as its long-awaited counter-publication. Although it may not emerge from a voting procedure that aims to define and rule…