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

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins publishers, [2013]Edition: First editionDescription: xx, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • 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
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Saving normal.LOC classification:
  • RC 469 .F696 2013
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.
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Includes bibliographic references (unnumbered page 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.

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