A parliamentary bill aims to assuage fears that innovative treatment will lead to doctors being sued – but the problem doesn’t exist.
- Professor of Psychological Medicine, King's College London
Psychiatry is apparently in crisis – again. On the one hand, psychiatrists are agents of social control, carrying out society’s bidding to ensure that the socially deviant are kept locked up out of sight…
DSM-5, the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, was published in the US at the weekend. Given that not even its most passionate supporters would…
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