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Gary Greenberg

Gary Greenberg is a practicing psychotherapist in Connecticut and author of The Noble Lie. He has written about the intersection of science, politics, and ethics for many publications, including Harper's, the New Yorker, Wired, Discover, Rolling Stone, and Mother Jones, where he's a contributing writer.

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Stranger, May 16, 2013
...you're not going to see Kay Ryan tonight, you have a few other attractive readings options. First, Gary Greenberg is at Town Hall reading from The Book of Woe: The Making of DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry , which is a look at a book that has done...
Slate Magazine, May 15, 2013
...for short—last saw a major revision. With the long-awaited fifth edition to be released later this month, psychoanalyst Gary Greenberg’s The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry is both timely chronicle and scathing critique. He argues...
Slate Magazine, May 15, 2013
...Listen to Gary Greenberg discuss what he calls the “DSM wars,” : The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry...
Red Orbit, May 13, 2013
...authors – including Frances – releasing books deriding the manual weeks before it hits Amazon’s virtual bookshelf. Gary Greenberg, who has written about the DSM for the past decade, told USA Today that the manual is “simply collections of...
USA Today, May 12, 2013
...The common theme of these new books is to take aim at the heart of the manual. Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg, of New London, Conn., has written about the DSM for more than a decade and says the DSM disorders are "simply collections of symptoms that...
Psychology Today, May 10, 2013
...dramatically with the new edition). It has been criticized (some might say vilified) by its detractors. (Read by Gary Greenberg for a riveting history of DSM-5.) I don’t want to weigh in on one side or another here, . Is the "living document" dead on...
Salon, May 5, 2013
...?Psychiatric diagnosis is built on fiction and sold to the public as fact.? So writes psychotherapist Gary Greenberg in That?s an explosive assertion but also one that doesn?t quite mean what most of you are probably thinking. Scientologists, settle...
Psychology Today, May 10, 2013
...dramatically with the new edition). It has been criticized (some might say vilified) by its detractors. (Read by Gary Greenberg for a riveting history of DSM-5.) I don’t want to weigh in on one side or another here, . Is the "living document" dead on...
Pacific Standard, May 10, 2013
...of established disorders, are set to be altered by the new version. Last week, Blue Rider Press published Gary Greenberg’s The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry , a powerful critique of the entire DSM methodology. Greenberg is a...
Blood-Horse, May 9, 2013
...wrong saying racinos are dysfunctional and people made a lot of money with the current tax system,” said Gary Greenberg, a minority owner of Vernon Downs. “Cuomo’s comments addressing racinos hurt the chances of any amendment being passed in...
New Yorker, May 8, 2013
...self-reported symptoms (gathered through structured, standardized interviews). To date, these remain the main points of diagnosis and assessment. (Gary Greenberg also charts the evolution of the D.S.M. and its impact on the nature of mental disease.) ...
Atlantic Monthly, May 8, 2013
...percent to 42 percent to eliminate the category, and so it was deleted. This may have been, as Gary Greenberg wrote in Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease , "the first time in history that a disease was eradicated at the...
Beliefnet, May 8, 2013
...picture is an entire poem to me. It?s taken from a great website, featuring the photography of Dr. Gary Greenberg. What do you see when you look at these tiny grains of Maui sand, photographed under a microscope? I see jewels. And having just spent a...
Popular Science, May 8, 2013
...How do you diagnose disorders of the mind? Dreamstime With the release of the DSM-5 this month, psychotherapist Gary Greenberg questions whether psychiatry's diagnostic Bible can truly get at the nature of mental suffering. In 2012, I got a...