critism of the DSM

DSM-5 Critiques

Psychiatrist Allen Frances has been critical of proposed revisions to the DSM-5. In a 2012 article, Frances warned that if this DSM version is issued unamended by the APA, it will "medicalize normality and result in a glut of unnecessary and harmful drug prescription."^[67] In a December 2, 2012 blog post in Psychology Today, Frances lists the ten "most potentially harmful changes" to DSM-5:^[68]

• Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder, for temper tantrums
• Major Depressive Disorder, includes normal grief
• Minor Neurocognitive Disorder, for normal forgetting in old age
• Adult Attention Deficit Disorder, encouraging psychiatric prescriptions of stimulants
• Binge Eating Disorder, for excessive eating
• Autism change, reducing the numbers diagnosed
• First time drug users will be lumped in with addicts
• Behavioral Addictions, making a "mental disorder of everything we like to do a lot."
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder, includes everyday worries
• Post-traumatic stress disorder, changes opening "the gate even further to the already existing problem of misdiagnosis of PTSD in forensic settings."

This is what I have been saying for some time now. There used to be a law in this country where lawyers could not advertise there services and I think this also went for doctors and chemical companies. Professor Iggle.