"Frances thinks [DSM IV] inadvertently 
facilitated these epidemics­and, in the bargain, 
fostered an increasing tendency to chalk up 
life’s difficulties to mental illness and then 
treat them with psychiatric drugs."

DSM has $6.5 million sales each year

DSM claimed "naming rights."

Frances, about his current advocacy:  "If not me 
to correct it, who? I was stuck without an excuse to convince myself.”

The DSM 5 creates a “wholesale imperial medicalization of normality.

A disease is really a statistical construct.

Diagnosis, Frances says, is “part of the magic,” 
part of the power to heal patients­and to 
convince them to endure the difficulties of treatment

<http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_dsmv/all/1>Wired


"People Who experience mood swings, fear, voices and visions"