
Saving Normal
An Insider’s Revolt Against out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
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Narrated by:
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Paul Boehmer
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Allen Frances MD
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, who are reaping multibillion-dollar profits.
Masterfully charting the history of psychiatric fads throughout history, Frances argues that whenever we arbitrarily label another aspect of the human condition a "disease", we further chip away at our human adaptability and diversity, dulling the full palette of what is normal and losing something fundamental of ourselves in the process. Saving Normal is a call to all of us to reclaim the full measure of our humanity.
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Amazing
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A lot of interesting info
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what a great book
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Seek Education, not Medicalization
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This is an increasingly important book
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I enjoyed learning about the development of the DSM-IV and how big pharmaceutical companies used it as a tool to expand their market with propaganda to the general public, and to prescribers including family doctors and psychiatrists.
Right on the money
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Second, the title suggested a lame self-motivational book. I tried it and was relieved that it was science (or at least a field struggling toward it).
Third, that I was not the only one who thought that the DSM-5 read more like astrology than science.
Fourth, that pharmaceuticals are largely a fad (maybe that is confirmation bias, since that is what I've observed in my sorry generation).
And Last, that my Philosophy of Broader Survival still stands as a potential step in anxiety treatment (since it get to the core of the problem, and does not merely treat the symptom).
The narration was engaging, and the author used a few clever similes and metaphors to make points.
Wonderful on Several Fronts
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Well spoken, important topic, presented concisely.
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Insightful.
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1. People who have mental illness should just get their shit together like everyone else (denial).
2. Can you write me a note for disability with my Xanax? My last doctor said it was fine.
3. Big pharma ate my baby and gave it autism. Drugs are poison, all you need is organic food.
4. I haz wahburger, plz fixxor me
5. I read an article about bipolar disorder and that’s totally why my daughters a bitch.
6. This patient keeps asking for adderall, can you consult so I can get back to work?
This book explores some of the mistakes made in the practice of and misconceptions about psychiatry. Also included are instructions for doing it better. It should be required reading for clinicians as well as for family members of patients.
Someone had to say it
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