E-book titled DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible (2021) - synopsis: The DSM’s nearly 300 conditions have become the touchstones for the diagnoses that patients receive, students are taught, researchers study, insurers reimburse, and drug companies promote. Although the manual is portrayed as an authoritative corpus of psychiatric knowledge, it is a product of intense political conflicts, dissension, and factionalism. In this book, Allan V. Horwitz examines how the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), known colloquially as “psychiatry’s bible,” has been at the center of thinking about mental health in the United States since its original publication in 1952.
E-book titled Technological Addictions (2021) - synopsis: Technological Addictions is a wakeup call alerting the medical community—and society at large—to the addictive potential of technology and to technological addictions as legitimate psychiatric conditions worthy of medical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. The 10 chapters in this book address the different kinds of technological addiction, as well as how they manifest and impact particular populations. Core to this discussion is the fine line between addictive and nonpathological use.