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219
   
A decade later
: Gold, Kwit, and Otto, “The Xanthines (Theobromine and Aminophylline) in the Treatment of Cardiac Pain.”

 

220
   
He cited the Old Gold campaign
: Shapiro and Shapiro,
The Powerful Placebo
, 154.

 

220
   
Fisher was trying to sort out fact from opinion
: Marks,
Progress of Experiment
, 141–48.

 

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to equalize the chance
: Ibid., 144.

 

222
   
“free a researcher”
: Ibid., 146.

 

222
   
I have an intense prejudice
: “Conference on Therapy,”
American Journal of Medicine,
727.

 

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Let the experimenter who is driven
: Marks,
Progress of Experiment
, 139–40.

 

CHAPTER 11

 

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227
   
“a psychological response to an identifiable stressor”
: American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th ed., 679–80.

 

227
   
“excessive anxiety and worry”
: Ibid., 476.

 

228
   
Erving Goffman and Michel Foucault
: See Goffman,
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity,
and Foucault,
Madness and Civilization
.

 

229
   
socially constructed
: See Berger and Luckmann,
The Social Construction of Reality
, also Gergen, “The Social Constructionist Movement in Modern Psychology.”

 

232
   
“fevered polemical discussions”
: Spitzer and Wilson, “Nosology and the Official Psychiatric Nomenclature,” 837.

 

233
   
“what [was] behind the symptom”
: Menninger,
The Vital Balance,
325.

 

233
   
“We must attempt to explain”
: Ibid.

 

233
   
“the force of factors”
: Menninger, “Psychiatric Experience in the War,” 580.

 

233
   
This synthesis was enshrined
: Grob, “Origins of DSM-I.”

 

234
   
“Instead of putting so much emphasis”
: Menninger,
The Vital Balance
, 325.

 

234
   
The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
: Shorter,
History of Psychiatry,
173–77.

 

234
   
“an objective critical attitude”
: Wilson, “DSM-III and the Transformation of American Psychiatry,” 401.

 

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psychologist Philip Ash showed
: Ash, “The Reliability of Psychiatric Diagnosis.”

 

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a dismal 42 percent of cases
: Beck, “Reliability of Psychiatric Diagnoses”: 213.

 

235
   
a team led by Martin Katz
: Katz, Cole, and Lowery, “Studies of the Diagnostic Process.”

 

235
   
manic depression was much more common
: See, for example, Sandifer et al., “Psychiatric Diagnosis.”

 

236
   
“There is a terrible sense of shame”
: Wilson, “DSM-III,” 405.

 

236
   
they disrupted APA meetings
: Bayer,
Homosexuality and American Psychiatry
, 102–3.

 

236
   
the protestors got what they wanted
: Ibid., 112–50.

 

236
   
“Referenda on matters of science”
: Ibid., 153.

 

236
   
“If groups of people march”
: Ibid., 141.

 

237
   
Laing focused on schizophrenia
: Laing,
The Divided Self
.

 

237
   
“problems of living”
: Szasz,
The Myth of Mental Illness
.

 

238
   
“documenting the total number of people”
: Wilson, “DSM-III,” 403.

 

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“carrying psychiatrists on a mission”
: Ibid.

 

239
   
“Some individuals may interpret”
: American Psychiatric Association,
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
, 2nd ed., 122.

 

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some argued, and continue to argue
: See, for example, Klerman et al., “A Debate on DSM-III.” More recently, see Kirk and Kutchins,
The Selling of DSM
, and Caplan,
They Say You’re Crazy
.

 

239
   
“I was uncomfortable with not knowing”
: Spiegel, “The Dictionary of Disorder,”
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/01/03/050103fa_fact
.

 

240
   
depressive neurosis
: American Psychiatric Association,
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
, 2nd ed., 40.

 

241
   
overall attempt “to avoid terms”
: Ibid., viii.

 

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its professional discussions relegated
: Wilson, “DSM-III,” 403.

 

242
   
“assumed . . . an underlying process”
: Bayer and Spitzer, “Neurosis, Psychodynamics and DSM-III,” 189.

 

242
   
neurosis had been first described
: Knoff, “A History of the Concept of Neurosis.”

 

242
   
“DSM-III gets rid of the castles of neurosis”
: Bayer and Spitzer, “Neurosis, Psychodynamics and DSM-III,” 189.

 

242
   
“many patients”
: Wilson, “DSM-III,” 405.

 

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“a straitjacket”
: Bayer and Spitzer, “Neurosis, Psychodynamics and DSM-III,” 190.

 

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“wish [neurosis] reinserted”
: Ibid., 192.

 

243
   
“scientists attempting to advance”
: Ibid., 190.

 

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“pro-neurosis forces”
: Ibid., 193.

 

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a large role in “Project Flower”
: Wilson, “DSM-III,” 407.

 

243
   
“extremely embarrassing”
: Bayer and Spitzer, “Neurosis, Psychodynamics and DSM-III,” 193–94.

 

244
   
The DSM criteria for MDD
: American Psychiatric Association,
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
, 3rd ed., 213–15.

 

244
   
dysthymic disorder
: Ibid., 220–22.

 

244
   
adjustment disorder
: Ibid., 300.

 

244
   
“Clerks rather than experts”
: Wilson, “DSM-III,” 406.

 

244
   
the Feighner criteria
: Feighner et al., “Diagnostic Criteria for Use in Psychiatric Research.”

 

245
   
the single most commonly cited article
: Spitzer, Endicott, and Robins, “The Development of Diagnostic Criteria in Psychiatry,” 21.

 

245
   
“This communication will present”
: Feighner et al., “Diagnostic Criteria,” 57.

 

245
   
“criteria for establishing diagnostic validity”
: Ibid.

 

245
   
Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield examined
: Horwitz and Wakefield,
Loss of Sadness
, 93–94.

 

246
   
many people who had recently been bereaved
: Clayton, Halikas, and Maurice, “The Bereavement of the Widowed.”

 

246
   
the DSM-III committee were reminded
: Horwitz and Wakefield,
Loss of Sadness
, 100–102.

 

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“A full depressive syndrome”
: American Psychiatric Association,
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
, 3rd ed., 333.

 

247
   
grief begins to wane
: Clayton and Darvish, “Course of Depressive Symptoms Following the Stress of Bereavement.”

 

248
   
the profession would have been back to the bad old days
: As indeed, they turned out to be in Marwit, “Reliability of Diagnosing Complicated Grief.”

 

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“depression in the Western world”
: Andrews and Skoog, “Lifetime Prevalence of Depression,” 495.

 

CHAPTER 12

 

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“not typically used for your condition”
: Tilburt et al., “Prescribing ‘Placebo Treatments,’”
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/oct23_2/a1938
.

 

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“As a result of accumulated knowledge”
: Zinberg,
Drug, Set, and Setting,
187.

 

257
   
secondary anxiety
: Becker, “History, Culture, and Subjective Experience.”

 

257
   
Zinberg wrote about subcultures
: Zinberg et al., “Patterns of Heroin Use”; Zinberg, Harding, and Winkeller, “A Study of Social Regulatory Mechanisms”; and Zinberg,
Drug, Set, and Setting,
135–71.

 

258
   
Harvard’s lawyers objected
: Zinberg,
Drug, Set, and Setting
, 199–200.

 

259
   
An ad that ran in a 1945 issue of the
American Journal of Psychiatry: “If the individual is depressed . . . ,” xiii.

 

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an indication that was worth $1.5 billion
: “Pharmacy Facts and Figures,” Drug Topics website,
http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drugtopics/article/articleList.jsp?categoryId=7604
.

 

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“outstanding effectiveness . . . with which Miltown relieves”
: “Relieves Anxiety and Anxious Depression,” Miltown advertisement, 20.

 

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people were “miltowning”
: Callahan and Berrios,
Reinventing Depression
, 106. See also Shorter,
Before Prozac
, 45.

 

260
   
“No Miltown today”
: Shorter,
Before Prozac,
45.

 

260
   
The industry pushed the minor tranquilizers
: Callahan and Berrios,
Reinventing Depression
, 110.

 

260
   
“when the patient rambles”
: “When the patient rambles . . . ,” advertisement, 420.

 

260
   
Valium eventually took up more
: Callahan and Berrios,
Reinventing Depression
, 110.

 

261
   
The minor tranquilizers’ success
: Wheatley, “A Comparative Trial of Imipramine”; Hollister, “Mental Disorders”; Blackwell, “Psychotropic Drugs in Use Today.”

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