TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frances,Allen
TI  - Saving normal: an insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life 
SN  - 9780062229250
AV  - RC469 .F696 2013
U1  - 616.89/075 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins publishers
KW  - Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
KW  - 5th ed
KW  - Mental illness
KW  - Classification
KW  - Diagnosis
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - United States
N1  - 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
N2  - 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 --
ER  -