Peddling mental disorder : the crisis in modern psychiatry / Lawrie Reznek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reznek, Lawrie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.

Mental illness--Classification--Social aspects.

Mental illness.

Psychotropic drugs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book describes the expansion of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) (fifth edition)--both the manual and its application--and the resulting over-medication of society. The author discusses revisions and additions that have only deepened the epidemics of major depression, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, social anxiety disorder, attention deficit disorder and bipolar disorder"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments ; Introduction: The Fundamental Question ; One Snake Oil Psychiatry ; Are Psychiatrists Quacks? ; Peddling Mental Disorder ; Disease Mongering ; The Creation of Spurious Epidemics ; Two The Influence of Big Pharma ; The Selling of Psychiatry

The Corruption of Data and the Suicide Scandal Turning Psychiatrists into Quacks ; Three The Nature of Mental Disorder ; Diseases Are Explanations ; When Is a Mental Disorder Not a Disorder? ; Four The Creation of DSM- III ; Unreliable Diagnoses ; Abuse of Psychiatric Diagnosis

The Antipsychiatry Movement Psychoanalysis Is Unscientific ; The DSM- III Solution ; Five The Dangers of DSM- III ; Medicalization and the Expandability of DSM ; The Myth of Political Neutrality ; The Sacrifice of Understanding ; The Death of Clinical Judgment

Playing into the Hands of the Pharmaceutical Industry Six Ordinary Sadness versus Major Depression ; A Short History of Melancholic Depression ; The DSM- III Definition ; Overdiagnosing Depression; The End of Sadness ; Creating a Drug Dependent Society

The Creation of Subclinical Depressive Disorder DSM-5 and the End of Grief ; Seven Shyness versus Social Anxiety Disorder ; The Demise of Anxiety Neurosis ; Branding a Condition ; The Invention of Social Phobia ; The Epidemic of Social Anxiety Disorder ; DSM-5 Fans the Epidemic

The Marketing of Paxil

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4766-2272-8

OCLC:

945613109