The Medicalization of Modern Life | The Health Care Blog (grief....)

The Medicalization of Modern Life | The Health Care Blog
 By Allen Frances, MD

" This is the saddest moment in my 45 year career of studying, practicing, and teaching psychiatry.
The Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association has given its final approval to a deeply flawed DSM 5 containing many changes that seem clearly unsafe and scientifically unsound. My best advice to clinicians, to the press, and to the general public – be skeptical and don’t follow DSM 5 blindly down a road likely to lead to massive over-diagnosis and harmful over-medication.
Just ignore the ten changes that make no sense......