“Diagnoses decided by an unelected committee in secret sessions that are legally prevented from discussing their work. Science marches on.”
Many are up in arms about the closed-doors process being used to draft the next edition of the American Psychiatric Associations’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, or DSM, the ‘bible’ defining all permissible psychiatric diagnoses.
via Mind Hacks.

What’s to stop them from using Involuntary and Stalin like dubious psychiatric diagnoses?
With Bush’s 2004 New Freedom Commission on Mental Health and the unethical APA, and psikhushka like, or Political abuses of psychiatry treatment?
LikeLike