Amazon Customer: This needs to be required CME for psychiatrists. ABPN please help save society from the legions of zombie stimulant prescribers. This book can help!
United States on May 31, 2023
Santiago González Chávez: This book is very well written and of deep research. The perspective of a very renown psychiatrist is of an invaluable nature, sharing the workings of the complex psychiatric establishment from the inside.
Also valuable is the lesson regarding the relationship between big corporations and big government. When incentives for those organizations are aligned, the general population tends to suffer. Regulation might help but the solution to this kinds of problems lies within a profound change in our collective relationship with "authority".
This book is one of the best defences for authentic human diversity and a warning against a pseudoscientific-backed totalitarianism. It is an inspiring read for saving normal en keeping sanity at this times of widespread medicalization of everyday life.
Mexico on Aug 23, 2021
Mary R. Kolk: I teach classes on my research on Big Pharma. The classes are "Big Pharma: Pulling Back the Curtain on the Business of Healthcare". This book has been invaluable to my research on Big Pharma. People in my classes are astonished to find out what goes on behind that curtain. Dr. Allen Frances is one of my newest heroes!! He tells it like it is.
This country spends more on prescription medicine than any other country. Direct to consumer TV ads are out of control. Showing only how wonderful you will feel after you take their drug while the rapid voice over gives non-stop difficult to grasp and even more difficult for any non-medical person to understand side effects of these drugs. We take something as simple as shyness and turn it into mental illness.
Dr. Allen reports:
"We should not be making patients of people who are basically normal and ignoring those who are really sick. Psychiatry is certainly not alone in its overreaching—we are just a special case of the bloat and waste that characterize all of U.S. medicine. Commercial interests have hijacked the medical enterprise, putting profit before patients and creating a feeding frenzy of overdiagnosis,...
United States on Apr 26, 2020
Bonnie McCormick: A must read if you have any interest at all in increasing your understanding of just how easily one's life can be forever altered by the evolvement of an over diagnosed and pill eating society. Read about the past and present fads of mental health disorders, the history and recent changes in the D-5, and the secrets that BIG pharmas keep hidden from the American public and why we the people should be shouting for mental health policy changes and how psychtropic medications are prescribed. I think I'll read it again A must read if you have any interest at all in increasing your understanding of just how easily one's life can be forever altered by the evolvement of an over diagnosed and pill eating society. Read about the past and present fads of mental health disorders, the history and recent changes in the D-5, and the secrets that BIG pharmas keep hidden from the American public and why we the people should be shouting for mental health policy changes and how psychtropic medications are prescribed. I think I'll read it again! - Bonnie Mccormick, MSW Clinical Behavioral Health Social Work Intern
United States on Nov 02, 2018
Roger Deacon: Despite the rise of Dumbold Chump and the presumed mental instability of any supporter, it is heartening to think that the country that once was a light to the rest of the world at so many levels yet now none, has a few people still aware of the blinding idiocy in Psychiatry. Bring back the leach, it was so much safer. Schizophrenics living on the streets in India are healthier than those in USless America.
Australia on Oct 13, 2017
Bluemartini77: Bellissimo. Analitico e calato nella realtà di chi lavora tutti i giorni in prima linea. Critico verso il dsm5 ma senza essere fazioso. Da leggere.
Italy on Apr 18, 2017
Jojo: Sure - some may call it a late awakening of one of the forethinkers in psychiatric diagnosis. On the other hand - who better to stand up now and question some steps taken?
For those who work in the area of counseling, therapy and psychiatric care: You may feel that finally some old shrink jumped out of his bath tub yelling "Eureka! Eureka!" and in true Archimedes style starts to solve the troubles people have puzzled over for a long time. In a way, yes, I think this is how this book may be read (although I don't think it is what the author really thought). It stresses, once more, that the border between healthy and sick in psychiatric diagnosis is fluid. It stresses that we should go back to the good old days of actually talking to our clients or patients before diagnosing them.
I call this book a wake up call. A wake up call for all those dedicated to helping people and moving away from treating patients. We know so very, very little about the "chemistry" involved in mental health issues, we should stop treating patients and start helping people. Maybe this book will raise just a few more to stand up to their believes. Because - let's be frank - those who don't want...
Germany on Feb 20, 2017
Virginia: Libro imprescindible para todo el que quiera conocer el estado actual de la psiquiatría, desde los diagnósticos hasta la influencia de las farmacéuticas, pasando por los sistemas sanitarios y las aseguradoras. Y más considerando que su autor fue responsable de la redacción del DSM-IV.
Spain on Dec 17, 2016
Dennis B. Mulcare: First, I highly regard Dr. Frances’ efforts in composing this book, as he is thereby confronting a lot of vested interests. His “Insider’s Revolt”, per the book’s subtitle, is quite evident and most appreciated. Moreover, I believe that his efforts epitomize the highest ideals and ethical standards of the medical profession. As he states, he is concerned not only with saving normal, but also with salvaging the credibility/efficacy of psychiatric medical practice in a broader sense (e.g., including general practitioners). From my perspective, however, I also believe that he could have developed and presented his case more effectively. He would seem to have marshaled his major points rather well, but he could have organized them more coherently and supported them with greater depth.
Quite generally, Dr. Frances notes that “we have not figured out ways of translating basic science into clinical psychiatry...The expectation that there would be a simple...neurotransmitter...explanation for any mental disorder turned out to be naive and illusory” (p. 10). Accordingly, it would have been desirable for the book to include some ample treatment of neuronal/synaptic...
United States on Oct 16, 2014
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| ISBN-13 | 978-0062229250 | ||
| Hardcover | 336 pages | ||
| Dimensions | 6 x 1.09 x 9 inches | ||
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| ISBN-10 | 0062229257 | ||
| Item Weight | 1.08 pounds | ||
| Language | English | ||
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| Publisher | Mariner Books; 1st edition |
United States on Jul 17, 2023