Commentary on Robert Romanyshyn’s “Diagnostic Fictions”

The practicing psychologist can only welcome the journey that Robert Romanyshyn invites us on, as he asks us to examine our daily work, our use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and imagine a different, literary model. In taking steps along those paths, we can only anticipate the release of his even more extensive work on the topics he approaches, a book, The Frankenstein Prophesies. Many of us await that release with anticipation for the additional gifts it no doubt will bear