Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0062229257
ISBN 13
9780062229250
Category
Publication Year
2013
Publisher
Pages
334
Subject
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Mental illness -- Classification. Mental illness -- Diagnosis.
Abstract
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.
Description
xx, 314 pages ; Notes ; Index ; 24 cm
Biblio Notes
Frances, A. (2013). Saving normal: An insider's revolt against out-of-Control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of ordinary life. HarperCollins.
Responsibility: Allen Frances.
Responsibility: Allen Frances.
Number of Copies
1
