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This chapter offers an account of why modern psychiatry has failed as a form of applied science. Critical realism informs this account and at the end of the paper a programme of research is suggested from this philosophy as a needed corrective to that current picture of failure. The recently published Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 2013, presents a timely opportunity and reason fundamentally to question psychiatric diagnosis from a critical realist perspective.
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Pilgrim, D. (2014). The Failure of Modern Psychiatry and Some Prospects of Scientific Progress Offered by Critical Realism. In: Speed, E., Moncrieff, J., Rapley, M. (eds) De-Medicalizing Misery II. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137304667_4
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