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The lead up to the publication of DSM-5 was accompanied by a great deal of debate and argument within psychiatry. The director of the American National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) stated of current diagnostic systems that ‘Patients... deserve better... the weakness is [the systems’] lack of validity’and that NIMH would be re-orienting its research away from DSM categories.

As this excellent pocket book makes clear, giving a psychiatric diagnosis, whatever its usefulness, may have serious consequences. The book is one of a series that highlights alternative perspectives on mental health problems. It is written not only for psychologists and people with personal experience of mental disorder, but also for psychiatrists.