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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
Anyone living a full, rich life experiences ups and downs, stresses, disappointments, sorrows, and setbacks. Today, however, millions of people who are really no more than "worried well" are being diagnosed as having a mental disorder and receiving unnecessary treatment.
In Saving Normal, Allen Frances, one of the world's most influential psychiatrists, explains why stigmatizing a healthy person as mentally ill leads to unnecessary, harmful medications, the narrowing of horizons, the misallocation of medical resources, and the draining of the budgets of families and the nation. We also shift responsibility for our mental well-being away from our own naturally resilient brains and into the hands of "Big Pharma," who are reaping multi-billion-dollar profits.
Frances cautions that the newest edition of the "bible of psychiatry," the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 (DSM-5), is turning our current diagnostic inflation into hyperinflation by converting millions of "normal" people into "mental patients." Saving Normal is a call to all of us to reclaim the full measure of our humanity.
In Saving Normal, Allen Frances, one of the world's most influential psychiatrists, explains why stigmatizing a healthy person as mentally ill leads to unnecessary, harmful medications, the narrowing of horizons, the misallocation of medical resources, and the draining of the budgets of families and the nation. We also shift responsibility for our mental well-being away from our own naturally resilient brains and into the hands of "Big Pharma," who are reaping multi-billion-dollar profits.
Frances cautions that the newest edition of the "bible of psychiatry," the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 (DSM-5), is turning our current diagnostic inflation into hyperinflation by converting millions of "normal" people into "mental patients." Saving Normal is a call to all of us to reclaim the full measure of our humanity.
336 pages, Hardcover
First published April 3, 2013
About the author
Allen Frances
43 books45 followersAllen J. Frances (born 1942) is an American psychiatrist.
He is currently Professor and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine.
He is best known for serving as chair of the American Psychiatric Association task force overseeing the development and revision of the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV).
Frances is the founding editor of two well-known psychiatric journals: the Journal of Personality Disorders and the Journal of Psychiatric Practice.
He is currently Professor and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine.
He is best known for serving as chair of the American Psychiatric Association task force overseeing the development and revision of the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV).
Frances is the founding editor of two well-known psychiatric journals: the Journal of Personality Disorders and the Journal of Psychiatric Practice.
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August 18, 2022
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Mütevazi bir amaçla başlayan kitabımız Allen Francis’in psikiyatriye olan adanmışlığı ve geniş birikimi sonucu olarak sahip olduğu bakış açısıyla birleşerek adeta yozlaşmış psikiyatri sistemine yönelik bir manifestoya dönüşüyor. Daha önce dünya genelinde kabul edilen 2 psikiyatri tanı kitabından biri olan DSM in 3. Cildini yazan yazarımız uzun bir dinlenme sürecinden sonra alandakilerle olduğu bir partide dsm-4 et yaptıkları hataların çok daha büyüklerinin yapılacağını fark ederek bir akıl hastalığı enflasyonunun kapıda olduğunu duyumsuyor. Abiyene tabirle de işin başa düştüğünü fark ediyor ve kolları sıvayarak bu manifestoyu yazıyor. Normal’I kurtarmak
Mütevazi bir amaçla başlayan kitabımız Allen Francis’in psikiyatriye olan adanmışlığı ve geniş birikimi sonucu olarak sahip olduğu bakış açısıyla birleşerek adeta yozlaşmış psikiyatri sistemine yönelik bir manifestoya dönüşüyor. Daha önce dünya genelinde kabul edilen 2 psikiyatri tanı kitabından biri olan DSM in 3. Cildini yazan yazarımız uzun bir dinlenme sürecinden sonra alandakilerle olduğu bir partide dsm-4 et yaptıkları hataların çok daha büyüklerinin yapılacağını fark ederek bir akıl hastalığı enflasyonunun kapıda olduğunu duyumsuyor. Abiyene tabirle de işin başa düştüğünü fark ediyor ve kolları sıvayarak bu manifestoyu yazıyor. Normal’I kurtarmak
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