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Diagnostic & Statistical Manual: Psychiatry's Deadliest Scam
2011
When diagnosis becomes deception—unmasking the billion-dollar industry behind the DSM.
- 1h 18m
- October 19, 2011
Overview
The documentary Psychiatry’s Deadliest Scam critiques the DSM, psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, for labeling normal behaviors as mental illnesses. It argues that the DSM lacks scientific basis and fuels a massive industry built on overdiagnosis and overmedication. Through interviews and analysis, it claims this practice jeopardizes civil liberties and ethical treatment.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 19, 2011
- Original language
- English
- Cast
- Jonathan Emord,Moira Dolan,Dana Ullman,Fred A. Baughman Jr.,Jeffrey Schaler,Richard Bentall,Colin Ross,Bart Billings,Niall McLaren
- Writer
- Toby Burwell
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
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