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Author Frances, Allen, 1942-

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.

Publication Info. New York : William Morrow, [2013]
©2013

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 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  616.89 FRA    Storage
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Edition First edition.
Description xx, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references (pages [289]-304) and index.
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.
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.
Subject Mental illness -- Classification.
Mental illness -- Diagnosis.
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.
Psychiatry -- United States.
ISBN 0062229257
9780062229250
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