Professor Allen Frances on the New Diagnostic Manual – “DSM-5 is a wholesale imperial medicalization of normality that will trivialize mental disorder and lead to a deluge of unneeded medication treatment – a bonanza for the pharmaceutical industry but at a huge cost to the new false positive patients caught in the excessively wide DSM-5 net.”
He should know as he was DSM-IV Taskforce Chair
Thanks for your very supportive comments folks.
I would also like to widen the ban but I think we can win the under 5 ban on both sides of ‘the pond.’
We need to start somewhere to better Safeguard the Wellbeing of our children from psychotropic drug harm.
Professor Allen Frances on the New Diagnostic Manual – “DSM-5 is a wholesale imperial medicalization of normality that will trivialize mental disorder and lead to a deluge of unneeded medication treatment – a bonanza for the pharmaceutical industry but at a huge cost to the new false positive patients caught in the excessively wide DSM-5 net.”
He should know as he was DSM-IV Taskforce Chair
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Thanks for your very supportive comments folks.
I would also like to widen the ban but I think we can win the under 5 ban on both sides of ‘the pond.’
We need to start somewhere to better Safeguard the Wellbeing of our children from psychotropic drug harm.
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