Ms. Rice, who was born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien and was married to the late poet Stan Rice, hasn't entirely abandoned religious themes.

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Now, Gary Greenberg, a psychotherapist and the author of "Manufacturing Depression" (2010), and Allen Frances, a psychiatrist who was task-force chair of the revision of the fourth DSM, have joined the chorus of critics.

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