Frances, Allen,  1942- <br/><br/>
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. 
 - First edition. 
 - xx, 314 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographic references (unnumbered page 289-304) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780062229250 0062229257 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>101611556  DNLM 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 5th ed. <br/>Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 5th ed. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mental Disorders--diagnosis--United States.<br/>Mental Disorders--classification--United States.<br/>Psychiatry--United States.<br/>Mental illness--Classification.<br/>Mental illness--Diagnosis.<br/>Psychiatry--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC 469  / .F696 2013