All we have to fear : psychiatry's transformation of natural anxieties into mental disorders / Allan V. Horwitz, Jerome C. Wakefield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horwitz, Allan V.

Contributor:

Wakefield, Jerome C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anxiety disorders--Diagnosis.

Anxiety disorders.

Psychiatry--Methodology.

Psychiatry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thirty years ago, it was estimated that less than five percent of the population had an anxiety disorder. Today, some estimates are over fifty percent, a tenfold increase. Is this dramatic rise evidence of a real medical epidemic?In All We Have to Fear, Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield argue that psychiatry itself has largely generated this ""epidemic"" by inflating many natural fears into psychiatric disorders, leading to the over-diagnosis of anxiety disorders and the over-prescription of anxiety-reducing drugs. American psychiatry currently identifies disordered anxiety as irrational anxi

Contents:

Cover; Contents; 1. The Puzzle of Anxiety Disorders; 2. An Evolutionary Approach to Normal and Pathological Anxiety; 3. Normal, Pathological, and Mismatched Anxiousness; 4. A Short History of Anxiety and Its Disorders; 5. The Validity of the DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Anxiety Disorders; 6. Fear and Anxiety in the Community; 7. PTSD; 8. The Transformation of Anxiety into Depression; 9. Setting Boundaries between Natural Fears and Anxiety Disorders; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-997886-7

1-280-59561-2

9786613625441

0-19-979391-3

OCLC:

793996698