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Mental Disorders: A Feminist Analysis

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Much has been written about the history of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Feminist critiques are abundant. However, it appears that despite criticism of the medicalization of the field of psychology from psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors, the DSM remains the primary basis for the teaching of psychopathology to future mental health professionals. The reasons for this are complex. This paper attempts to elucidate the multiple social, political, and economic forces at work in maintaining the dominance of the psychiatric profession, with its medical approach to psychological distress, in the field of mental health. In addition, the effects of gender biases,

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