ABSTRACT
DSM-III exemplified the antiscientific and irrational approach to perfection; it does not discuss or argue, but lays down the law as if it were dealing with a paradigm which no rational person could quarrel with. The fact that such an approach and such an empty, atheoretical, and antiexperimental system can find acceptance in psychiatry says more about the nature of modern psychiatry than any critic, however hostile, might be able to say.
