Saving normal : an insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life /
Frances, Allen, 1942-
Saving normal : an insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life / Insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life Allen Frances, M.D. - First edition. - xx, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographic references (pages 289-304) and index.
Pt. I. Normality under siege : What's normal and what's not? ; From shaman to shrink ; Diagnostic inflation -- Pt. II. Psychiatric fads can be bad for your health : Fads of the past ; Fads of the present ; Fads of the future -- Pt. III. Getting back to normal : Taming diagnostic inflation ; The smart consumer ; The worst and the best of psychiatry.
Frances argues that the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders threatens to destroy what is considered normal and that grief, sorrow, stress, disappointment, and other feelings are part of life, not a psychiatric disease --
9780062229250 0062229257
2013444159
101611556 DNLM
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 5th ed.
Mental illness--Classification.
Mental illness--Diagnosis.
Psychiatry--United States.
RC469 / .F696 2013
616.89/075
2013 F-600 WM 141 WM 141 / F815 2013
Saving normal : an insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life / Insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life Allen Frances, M.D. - First edition. - xx, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographic references (pages 289-304) and index.
Pt. I. Normality under siege : What's normal and what's not? ; From shaman to shrink ; Diagnostic inflation -- Pt. II. Psychiatric fads can be bad for your health : Fads of the past ; Fads of the present ; Fads of the future -- Pt. III. Getting back to normal : Taming diagnostic inflation ; The smart consumer ; The worst and the best of psychiatry.
Frances argues that the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders threatens to destroy what is considered normal and that grief, sorrow, stress, disappointment, and other feelings are part of life, not a psychiatric disease --
9780062229250 0062229257
2013444159
101611556 DNLM
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 5th ed.
Mental illness--Classification.
Mental illness--Diagnosis.
Psychiatry--United States.
RC469 / .F696 2013
616.89/075
2013 F-600 WM 141 WM 141 / F815 2013