“Scientific Nightmare”: The Backstory of the “DSM”
Andrew Scull gives stellar marks to Allan Horwitz’s history of the DSMs.
Andrew Scull gives stellar marks to Allan Horwitz’s history of the DSMs.
Edith Sheffer’s book on the history of autism is an impressive piece of historical detective work.
A lucky, damaged man lost in a world of magical thinking.
Andrew Scull on "The Book of Woe."
ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO, American psychiatry faced an escalating crisis of legitimacy. All sorts of evidence suggested that, when confronted with a...