All We Have to Fear

by Jerome C. Wakefield and Allan V. Horwitz

Book Overview

Thirty years ago, it was estimated that less than five percent of the population had an anxiety disorder. Today, some estimates are over fifty percent, a tenfold increase. Is this dramatic rise evidence of a real medical epidemic?

In All We Have to Fear, Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield argue that psychiatry itself has largely generated this "epidemic" by inflating many natural fears into psychiatric disorders, leading to the over-diagnosis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199793751
• ISBN13: 9780199793754
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"