Historical information
The film is an exposé alleging that the DSM is used to justify psychiatric fraudulence and quackery. The DSM is portrayed as a highly contentious manual used by psychiatrists for diagnostic purposes. ALLEGATIONS are made in relation to how the guide may be used to unnecessarily medicate and manipulate patients.
Also available online at: http://www.cchr.org/videos/diagnostic-statistical-manual.html
Significance
Relevant to civil liberties, patient rights and the profession of psychiatry.
Physical description
DVD
Subjects
- btlc,
- ballarat trades hall,
- ballarat trades and labour council,
- dsm,
- diagnostic & statistical manual,
- psychiatry,
- psychiatrists,
- psychiatric diagnoses and treatment,
- patients - rights,
- mental illness,
- pharmaceutical companies,
- civil liberties
