Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2013
Abstract
The revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), scheduled for publication in May 2013 by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), has created a firestorm of controversy because of questions about undue industry influence. Specifically, concerns have been raised about financial conflicts of interest between DSM-5 panel members and the pharmaceutical industry. The authors argue that current approaches to the management of these relationships, particularly transparency of them, are insufficient solutions to the problem of industry’s capture of organized psychiatry. The conceptual framework of institutional corruption is used to understand psychiatry’s dependence on the pharmaceutical industry and to identify the epistemic assumptions that ground the DSM’s biopsychiatric discourse. APA’s rationale for including Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) in the DSM-5 as a Mood Disorder is reviewed and discussed.
Recommended Citation
Cosgrove, Lisa and Wheeler, Emily E, "Industry’s Colonization of Psychiatry: Ethical and Practical Implications of Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5," Feminism & Psychology (2013).
Publisher
Sage Journals
Rights
© The Author(s) 2013
Included in
Bioethics and Medical Ethics Commons, Mental Disorders Commons, Pharmacy Administration, Policy and Regulation Commons, Women's Health Commons
Comments
Post-print, pre-published version of article published in Feminism & Psychology, Volume 23, Issue 1, February 2013, Pages 93-106: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353512467972.