Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness - http://www.wired.com/magazin...
""there is no definition of a mental disorder. It’s bullshit. I mean, you just can’t define it.” Allen Frances, lead editor of the fourth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [DSM] [...] one psychiatrist wrote after the APA voted homosexuality out of the DSM, “there is a terrible sense of shame among psychiatrists, always wanting to show that our diagnoses are as good as the scientific ones used in real medicine.” - Simon