This blog covers mental health, drugs and psychotherapy with an emphasis on the role of family dysfunction in behavioral problems. It discusses how family systems issues have been denigrated in psychiatry in favor of a disease model for everything by a combination of greedy pharmaceutical and managed care insurance companies, naïve and corrupt experts, twisted science, and desperate parents who want to believe that their children have a brain disease to avoid an overwhelming sense of guilt.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Psychiatry's Latest Manual Goes Too Far
Allen Francis was chairman of the task force that created the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), which came out in 1994. Although this essay does not talk about the disease mongering of the pharmaceutical companies as a factor in the expansion of psychiatric diagnoses to "encompass every eccentricity," it does discuss the absurdity of some of the newly proposed diagnoses. Written by someone who should know. Click on the title of this post to link to the essay.
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