Dr Allen Frances, MD-Saving Normal with Scott Cluthe Live on P I Radio

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tonight Dr Allen Frances, MD and Scott Cluthe discuss Saving Normal
& out of control psychiatric diagnosis in America.  From
"the most powerful psychiatrist in America" (New York Times) and
"the man who wrote the book on mental illness" (Wired), a deeply
fascinating and urgently important critique of the widespread
medicalization of normality Anyone living a full, rich life
experiences ups and downs, stresses, disappointments, sorrows, and
setbacks. These challenges are a normal part of being human, and
they should not be treated as psychiatric disease. However, today
millions of people who are really no more than "worried well" are
being diagnosed as having a mental disorder and are receiving
unnecessary treatment. In Saving Normal, Allen Frances, one of
the world's most influential psychiatrists, warns that mislabeling
everyday problems as mental illness has shocking implications for
individuals and society: stigmatizing a healthy person as mentally
ill leads to unnecessary, harmful medications, the narrowing of
horizons, misallocation of medical resources, and draining of the
budgets of families and the nation. We also shift responsibility
for our mental well-being away from our own naturally resilient and
self-healing brains, which have kept us sane for hundreds of
thousands of years, and into the hands of "Big Pharma".