http://mindhacks.com/2010/03/01/a-shorter-history-of-psychiatric-diagnosis/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 17 May 2013 22:36:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2010/03/01/a-shorter-history-of-psychiatric-diagnosis/#comment-5038 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:28:08 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/a-shorter-history-of-psychiatric-diagnosis/#comment-5038 As a fellow historian of medicine, I find that Shorter’s work leaves a lot to be desired. For example, in this article he suggests that drugs like Valium work better than SSRIs, but provides no data to support it. He also denies that benzos are addictive, which goes against accepted scientific facts in this area.

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