Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-Of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinar

by Allen Frances

Book Overview

International Bestseller - "An extraordinarily important book." --Marcia Angell, Harvard Medical School A deeply fascinating and urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization of normality, by "one of the world's most prominent psychiatrists" ( The Atlantic ) Anyone living a full, rich life experiences ups and downs, stresses, disappointments, sorrows, and setbacks. Today, however, millions of people who are really no more than "worried...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062229257
• ISBN13: 9780062229250
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"