I'm not sure about the "horrors" of the DSM, again it seems like such an oversimplification. It's not perfect and it's had some downright neanderthal thinking in it, but it's helped me a lot, again, ambiguous. I do know others have been harmed by it. Books like that develop too. Once the world was flat, then round, and there was science in that decision- not all science leads to correct conclusions, but that doesn't mean I'd want to throw out baby with bathwater. (The earth is an imperfect oblate spheroid.) I like to think that in most human endeavors including therapy/psychology, we're evolving, like when homosexuality was removed from the DSM 40+ years ago. I don't imagine anything created by humans is likely to be flawless, nor even excellent, but that there are many many committed, thoughtful, scientific and artistic minded people working in that direction.