Saving normal : an insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life / Allen Frances, M.D.

By:

Frances, Allen, 1942-

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780062229250
0062229257

Other title:

Insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Saving normal.DDC classification:

616.89/075 23

LOC classification:

RC469 .F696 2013

NLM classification:

2013 F-600
WM 141
WM 141

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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 -- Source other than Library of Congress.

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Includes bibliographic references (pages 289-304) and index.

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 -- Source other than Library of Congress.