In Pigeonholing Women's Misery, the distinguished feminist psychologist Hannah Lerman has written a book that will be useful for practicing clinicians as well as for interested lay persons. Her subject is the history and consequences for women of the development and application of psychodiagnostic tools and criteria. Focusing particularly on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals of mental disorders, Lerman traces the effects of psychiatric authority on women who have been its objects. Lerman provides useful information for feminist and other critics of the psychological disciplines in general, and of psychodiagnostic categories in particular. She also provides a good overview of arguments about the actual uses to which the DSMs are, and have been, put, including the slippage between the instruments and the actual psychiatric practices that have followed from them. Thus, she discusses such issues as the individuality of the clinicians who apply psychiatric instruments, problems of over- and underdiagnosis, and problems caused by the