Peddling Mental Disorder

The Crisis in Modern Psychiatry

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Psychiatry is a mess. Patients who urgently need help go untreated, while perfectly healthy people are over-diagnosed with serious mental disorders and receive unnecessary medical treatment. The roots of the problem are the vast pharmaceutical industry profits and a diagnostic system--the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)--vulnerable to exploitation.Drug companies have fostered the development of this system, pushing psychiatry to over-extend its domain so that more people can be diagnosed with mental disorders and treated with drugs.This book describes the steady expansion of the DSM--both the manual itself and its application--and the resulting over-medication of society. The author discusses revisions and additions to the DSM (now in its fifth edition) that have only deepened the epidemics of major depression, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, social anxiety disorder, attention deficit disorder and bipolar disorder.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-11-04
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt376 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9781476663067

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Fundamental QuestionOne • Snake Oil PsychiatryAre Psychiatrists Quacks?Peddling Mental DisorderDisease MongeringThe Creation of Spurious EpidemicsTwo • The Influence of Big PharmaThe Selling of PsychiatryThe Corruption of Data and the Suicide ScandalTurning Psychiatrists into QuacksThree • The Nature of Mental DisorderDiseases Are ExplanationsWhen Is a Mental Disorder Not a Disorder?Four • The Creation of DSM-IIIUnreliable DiagnosesAbuse of Psychiatric DiagnosisThe Antipsychiatry MovementPsychoanalysis Is UnscientificThe DSM-III SolutionFive • The Dangers of DSM-IIIMedicalization and the Expandability of DSMThe Myth of Political NeutralityThe Sacrifice of UnderstandingThe Death of Clinical JudgmentPlaying into the Hands of the Pharmaceutical IndustrySix • Ordinary Sadness versus Major DepressionA Short History of Melancholic DepressionThe DSM-III DefinitionOverdiagnosing DepressionThe End of SadnessCreating a Drug Dependent SocietyThe Creation of Subclinical Depressive DisorderDSM-5 and the End of GriefSeven • Shyness versus Social Anxiety DisorderThe Demise of Anxiety NeurosisBranding a ConditionThe Invention of Social PhobiaThe Epidemic of Social Anxiety DisorderDSM-5 Fans the EpidemicThe Marketing of PaxilEight • Boisterous Boys versus Attention Deficit Hyperactivity DisorderA Terrible SynergyFrom MBD to ADHDThe Manufacture of an EpidemicDSM-5 Fuels the EpidemicPushing Drugs Onto ChildrenAdults Join the MarketAn Alternative PictureNine • Female Woes versus Premenstrual Dysphoric DisorderNew Bottles for Old WineThe Invention of Premenstrual Dysphoric DisorderDirect to Consumer AdvertisingPMDD Comes of Age in DSM-5Ten • Mood Swings versus Bipolar DisorderA Very Brief History of Manic-DepressionDSM-III and the Bipolar EpidemicBorderline Personality Disorder as Bipolar DisorderBipolar Disorder in ChildrenBig Pharma in the Ivory TowerThe DSM-5 CompromiseForgetting the ContextConclusion: The Future of PsychiatryIn a NutshellRecommendationsHow to Climb Off the TigerChapter NotesBibliography Index