The DSM here in Eastern US. It was interesting to see with the release of the newest DSM V, how many hundreds of therapists and patients criticized it as being unscientific and mainly a way for psychiatrists and insurance companies to pathologize more people and profit from prescribing more pills. The former president of the DSM, Allen Frances, even wrote an open letter attacking the new book.
As an aside - and sorry for the off-topic comment, but it is tangentially related in that the increasing number of DSM diagnoses are tending to encourage more and more use of psychiatric drugs - I hope that more people will see that pills only control symptoms short-term, but they cannot cure Borderline Personality Disorder. Only working on one's problems alone and with other people (often in psychotherapy) can allow a person to recover to the point where they no longer have BPD at all.
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