Saving normal : an insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life / Allen Frances.
Frances, Allen, 1942- author.
2013
RC469 .F696 2013 (Mapit)
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Title Saving normal : an insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life / Allen Frances.
Author Frances, Allen, 1942- author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780062229250
0062229257
Published New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins publishers, [2013]
Language English
Description xx, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Call Number RC469 .F696 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.89/075
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographic references (unnumbered page 289-304) and index.
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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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