'Psychiatry is utterly dependent on a relationship'.

BURNS, Tom; MENTAL illness; DIAGNOSTIC & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Book); OUR Necessary Shadow: The Nature & Meaning of Psychiatry (Book); HISTORY of psychiatry; COLLEGE teachers; UNIVERSITY of Oxford; UNIVERSITY faculty

The article reports that University of Oxford professor of social psychiatry Tom Burns has criticised the ultra-scientific approaches to mental illness and the fifth edition of "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" in the U.S. He describes the lessons he learned from the nervous breakdown of his mother. In his book "Our Necessary Shadow: The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry," he outlines the achievements of psychiatry as well as its history of incompetence and abuse.