The Most Important Book in Psychiatry

The most important and intriguing book in the psychiatry community has arrived on time this year again. American Psychiatric Association has published its “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders”, yearly edition. This book is consulted not only by psychiatrists such as Joseph Franzetti, MD, but also by insurance companies, drug companies and many waiting patients and parents. This isn’t viewed by just America, but the entire world looks forward to its release. It has become the standard in the psychiatry world for telling what is a mental illness, and what is not a mental illness. This also defines who gets treated, and who pays for treatment. No other branches of the medical community have any books that have such power over people’s lives and is so vastly looked forward to every year.