Psychiatric Classifications, Nomenclature and Labeling of
"Mental Illness" & "Mental Disorders"

The psychiatric labels assigned by medical doctors and psychiatrists are based upon shoddy science. The list of "mental disorders" is constantly expanding. Why? Because labels figure prominently in deciding whose psychotherapy will be paid by insurance companies, who will be hospitalized against their will, who may be declared by a court of law to be incompetent or too disturbed to have custody of their children, who will be allowed to grant or withhold permission to perform surgery on their bodies, and on and on.

A tremendous number of routine problems which people have with life have become transformed into "mental illnesses" or "disorders" by the American Psychiatric Association's slight of hand decisions, categorizations and nomenclature. The books below shed much light onto this subject.

To discover more about the theories, methods and history of psychiatric terminology, classification and labeling, online, follow the link to the SNTP Psychiatric Labeling Main Page.