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Author
Publisher
The Guilford Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Morrison presents the spectrum of diagnoses in DSM-5 in an accessible, engaging, clinically useful format. Demystifying DSM-5 criteria without sacrificing accuracy, he includes both ICD-10-CM and ICD-9-CM codes for each disorder, as well as the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) Scale (from DSM-IV-TR), with a clear rationale for its continued use. Discussions of sample cases demonstrate how to arrive at the diagnosis and rule out other likely...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this exposé of the psychiatric profession's bible, the DSM, psychotherapist Gary Greenberg argues that the process by which mental disorders are invented and uninvented is flawed, and that increasing numbers of therapy patients are being declared mentally ill and prescribed sometimes unnecessary or harmful medications.--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins publishers
Language
English
Description
In this book the author, a psychiatrist, makes a critique of the widespread medicalization of normality. He argues that the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders threatens to destroy what is considered normal and that grief, sorrow, stress, disappointment, and other feelings are part of life, not a psychiatric disease. Anyone living a full, rich life experiences ups and downs, stresses, disappointments, sorrows,...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Formats
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"Hippocrates Cried offers an eye-witness account of the decline of American psychiatry by an internationally-known neuropsychiatrist. Arguing that patients with mental disorders are no longer receiving the care they need, Taylor details how psychiatrists in the U.S. rely too heavily on the DSM, a diagnostic tool that he shows neglects important conditions or symptoms thus failing to properly identify many patients with mental illness. According to...
