Dangerous Psychiatric Fads
Allen Frances
Some interesting quotes (Part 8)
You might find some (or all) of the following quotes interesting: Dr. Allen Frances (psychiatrist and founding editor of two well-known psychiatric journals): “Main thing we’ve learned from the history of psychiatry is that we learn nothing from it and…
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Rates of Prolonged Grief Disorder: Considering relationship to the person who died and cause of death
This research paper – from Kara Thieleman, Joanne Cacciatore, and Allen Frances – has been published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. The abstract says: Background Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) was recently included in DSM-5-TR. The rate of PGD is known to…
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They Say You’re Crazy: How The World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal
Some interesting quotations ( Part 4)
You might find some (or all) of the following quotes interesting: “There is no reason to believe that DSM-5 is safe or scientifically sound … The science simply isn’t there now……A research dead end.” Professor Allen Frances, Chair of DSM…
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Allen Frances: Overdiagnosis
Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
The publishers describe this book (2014) as being an “… urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization of normality. Anyone living a full, rich life experiences ups and downs, stresses, disappointments, sorrows, and setbacks. Today, however, millions of people who…
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