Marketing Crazy

Date: 4:30 pm | Saturday 19 October 2013

Venue: The Braggs, The University of Adelaide

The DSM-5, the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic bible, dominates the global mental health industry, providing the pharmaceutical industry with market opportunities, physicians with the rationale for writing prescriptions, and the rest of us with an impression of psychological suffering as a medical problem. Gary Greenberg asks: are many of the DSM’s diagnoses just a sane response to a crazy world?