I just finished reading Saving Normal by Dr. Allen Frances. Its a - TopicsExpress



          

I just finished reading Saving Normal by Dr. Allen Frances. Its a terrific book on how an expanding number of vague symptoms classified as mental illnesses by APA combined with solutions advertised directly to public by pharmaceutical companies has medicalized normality. As many of you know, I have focused on how the consumer/mental health industry medicalizes normality (classifies bad grades, poor marriages, losing a parent, etc. as mental illnesses). The parallels are amazing. Frances (like me) is pro psychiatry when it focuses on seriously mentally ill, but critical of the rest of it. Very interesting book. Too bad, so many are misinterpreting it. amazon/Saving-Normal-Out-Control-Medicalization/dp/0062229257
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 21:52:19 +0000

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