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Kirk and Kutchins provide a detailed and thoroughly documented critique of the development process of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III), and of the resulting product. The authors' contention that DSM-III does not provide a diagnostic/classification system of high scientific credibility is a recurrent theme, and problems of diagnostic unreliability, in particular, are emphasized. But, more than the product, it is the process through which DSM-III was developed that comes in for detailed description and commentary. The role of Robert Spitzer, head of the DSM-III Task Force, and the extent to which he alledgedly permitted political as well as scientific considerations to influence the DSM-III development are the book's dominant themes. Serious concerns by dynamically oriented psychiatrists are documented; and from outside psychiatry, the American Psychological Association objections to the medical model and to the definition of mental disorders as a subset of medical disorders are noted. Recommended for undergraduate and graduate psychology collections and for medical libraries. P. G. Romine; Tennessee Technological University