A doctor (an infectious disease specialist) responds to Jeffrey Lieberman’s defense of the DSM, saying “Rather than respond to critics of the APA’s new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, aka DSM-5, the Bible of psychiatry with sound arguments, Lieberman stoops to disparaging characterizations of critics as ‘real people who don’t want to improve mental healthcare,’ and that he, as Professor and president-elect of the APA, is in a far better position to understand and solely make decisions.”
