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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 by Frances, Allen is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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Readers will recognise the mythical force of a forgotten warrior hero returning from obscurity to achieve deliverance from a villainous tyrant. Saving Normal is marketed along these lines. Allen Frances, Chair of the DSM-IV Task Force, described on the flyleaf as once the most powerful man in psychiatry, has emerged reluctantly from retirement to do battle with the evil excesses of DSM-5. This has fallen into the wrong hands (a coalition between the American Psychiatric Association and extreme commercialism) and has gone bad. Powerful forces are trying to convince us that we are all sick, thus robbing humanity of its essential normality. Not to mention making billions of dollars on the way.Frances writes well, and is no stranger to hyperbole. Profits are reaped not earned. Psychiatric medications are star earners for drug companies. Researchers have inserted pet diagnoses, which are rampantly hyperinflated. DSM-5 has become an obese monster, and a publishing profit centre for the APA. Such rhetoric can border on paranoia, but Frances believes that psychiatric overdiagnosis is an exemplar of the bloat and waste that follows throughout US medicine when commercial interests hijack the

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Author

Frances, Allen

Publisher

William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062229250

Category

science

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, History

Rating

3.76 / 5 (508 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14