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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frances, Allen, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--Classification--Social aspects.

Mental illness.

Mental illness--Diagnosis--Social aspects.

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.

Psychiatry--United States.

Psychiatry.

Mental illness--Diagnosis.

United States.

Physical Description:

xx, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : William Morrow, [2013]

Summary:

Francis 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.

Contents:

Part I: Normality under siege. What's normal and what's not? ; From shaman to shrink ; Diagnostic inflation

Part II: Psychiatric fads can be bad for your health. Fads of the past ; Fads of the present ; Fads of the future

Part III: Getting back to normal. Taming diagnostic inflation ; The smart consumer ; The worst and the best of psychiatry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

9780062229250

0062229257

OCLC:

813929684

Publisher Number:

99973180912