**Psychiatry is not a medical problem but a social, political and legal problem.** - Psychiatrist Mitchell Wilson (1993) has offered a similar position. He has argued that the dimen- sional/continuity view of psychological wellness and illness posed a basic problem for psychiatry because it “did not demarcate clearly the well from the sick” (p. 402) and that “if conceived of psy- chosocially, psychiatric illness is not the province of medicine, because psychiatric problems are not truly medical but social, political, and legal” (p. 402). The purpose of _DSM_-_III_, according to Wilson, was to allow psychiatry a means of marking out its professional territory. Kirk and Kutchins (1992) reached the same conclusion following their thorough review of the papers, letters, and memos of the various _DSM_ working groups.