Foreword / Maureen McHugh
Is this really necessary? / Paula J. Caplan and Lisa Cosgrove
1. construction of illness / Meadow Linder
2. deep structure of bias in psychiatric diagnosis / Jeffrey Poland and Paula J. Caplan
3. Creating post-traumatic stress disorder : a case study of the history, sociology, and politics of psychiatric classification / Meadow Linder
4. Abnormal psychology textbooks exclude feminist criticism of the DSM / Autumn Wiley
5. Psychiatric diagnosis in the legal system / Emily J. Caplan
6. Bias and subjectivity in diagnosing mental retardation in death penalty cases / Paula J. Caplan
7. What is it that's being called "parental alienation syndrome"? / Paula J. Caplan
8. intersection of racism and sexism in psychiatric diagnosis / Alisha Ali
9. Clinical cases and the intersection of sexism and racism / Nayyar Javed
10. Should racism be classified as a mental illness? / Wesley E. Profit
11. Ageism in psychiatric diagnosis / Rachel Josefowitz Siegel
12. psychiatric policing of children / Louise Armstrong
13. Confusing terms and false dichotomies in learning disabilities / Paula J. Caplan
14. Diagnosis of low-income women / Heather E. Bullock
15. Seeking "normal" sexuality on a complex matrix / William R. Metcalfe and Paula J. Caplan
16. Gender bias and sex distribution of mental disorders in the DSM-IV-TR / Lisa Cosgrove and Bethany Riddle
17. Mislabeling anxiety and depression in rural women / Nikki Gerrard
18. Bias and schizophrenia / Jeffrey Poland
19. truth about "false memory syndrome" / Karen A. Olio
20. Reclaiming the meanings of "self-esteem" / Nayyar Javed and Nikki Gerrard
21. Agoraphobia / Maureen McHugh and Lisa Cosgrove
22. Depression in women / Sarah McSweeney
23. "eating-disordered" patient / Judith R. Rabinor
24. fine line between clinical and subclinical anorexia / Emily Cohen
25. Histrionic personality / Pamela Reed Gibson
26. Post-traumatic stress disorder / Dana Becker
27. Some gender biases in diagnosing traumatized women / Vincent Fish
28. Medicalizing menstrual distress / Lisa Cosgrove and Paula J. Caplan
29. new view of women's sexual problems / The Working Group on A New View of Women's Sexual Problems
30. Resisting diagnosis / Gloria Anthony
31. importance of critical inquiry / Lisa Cosgrove
32. Some future contenders / Paula J. Caplan and Wesley E. Profit.
