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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographic references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Saving normal

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Allen Frances

Sub title

an insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, big pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life

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

Table Of 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

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