“Kendler himself is the researcher who reported that when Walter Cassidy, the psychiatrist who first proposed diagnostic criteria for depression, was asked why he set the threshold at six out of ten symptoms, he responded, “It sounded about right”
― The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
― The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
“An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.”
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“Grassley ordered the APA to disclose how much of its income was drug money. The answer turned out to be a lot—according to the Times, nearly one-third of the organization’s $62.5 million annual revenue41 in 2006. Some of it came from advertising, but much of it went to educational programs in which drug companies tutored doctors attending APA conferences in the fine points of prescribing their drugs.”
― The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
― The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
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