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The DO Book Club: ‘Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses’

By The DO Staff

02.26.23

Welcome back to The DO Book Club! In Sarah Fay’s memoir “Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses,” several important issues are raised about the validity of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the inappropriate role of pharmaceutical companies in the testing and financial support of physician researchers and the overuse of mental health diagnoses to treat and to define various patients.