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The Great "Crazy" Coverup: Harm Results from Rewriting the History of DSM

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[1] It would likely have been called hysteria if the top people had been women.

[2] Thomas E. Patterson , Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS),   recently called for "knowledge-based journalism." What a sad commentary that "journalism" is not assumed to have to be knowledge-based (Pazzanese, 2013).  

[3] Unpublished 2012 complaint by Paula Joan Caplan to American Psychiatric Association's Ethics Committee, which includes detailed examination of the official convention lectures of every APA president and president-elect from 1988 to the time the complaint was written. Available on request.

[4] I have often said that the categories are like star constellations, in that specific kinds of suffering are real, as is each star, but the categories of "symptom clusters" are no more real than the constellations created by the drawing of lines to connect certain stars rather than others.

[6] Ibid.

[7] Greenberg (2013) mistakenly reports that my call for hearings came shortly before 5 was published rather than in 2005.

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