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Kutchins and Kirk like to refer to the DSM as "psychiatry's bible," implying that it inspires reverence and is in need of suspicious interpretation, but the DSM is better described as psychiatry's dictionary.
DSM includes social and legal consequences of abuse and ICD-10 has only medical and psychological consequences.
Kutchins and Kirk claim that the DSM isn't a true account of mental illness because it's informed by particular social values.
The problem with this reasoning is that the concept "crazy" is entirely foreign to the DSM . Insanity is a legal and literary notion now, not a psychiatric one.
To maintain, then, as do Kutchins and Kirk, that "having an operational procedure for determining whether a phenomenon belongs in a class, such as the checklist of symptoms in DSM , does not substantiate what that construct or class is," is to completely misunderstand how the DSM works.