Saving normal : an insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life / Allen Frances.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins publishers, [2013]Edition: First editionDescription: xx, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
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- 9780062229250
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- Insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life
- Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 5th ed
- Mental Disorders -- diagnosis -- United States
- Mental Disorders -- classification -- United States
- Psychiatry -- United States
- Mental illness -- Classification
- Mental illness -- Diagnosis
- Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 5th ed
- Psychiatry -- United States
- RC 469 .F696 2013
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| RC 467 .U53 2003 Understanding research in clinical and counseling psychology / | RC 467.7 .W38 2018 Developing clinicians of character : a Christian integrative approach to clinical supervision / | RC 469 .E75 2005 Beyond the DSM story : ethical quandaries, challenges, and best practices / | RC 469 .F696 2013 Saving normal : an insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life / | RC 469 .M676 1995 DSM-IV made easy : the clinician's guide to diagnosis / | RC 469 .M676 1995 C.2 DSM-IV made easy : the clinician's guide to diagnosis / | RC 473 .C37 M38 1952 Psychoanalytic case formulation / |
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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