Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry
How Modern Psychiatry Lost Its Way While Creating a Diagnosis for Almost All of Life's Misfortunes
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 18 June 2015
- ISBN 9780199350643
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 208x152x10 mm
- Weight 240 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The costs of excessive medical care are becoming increasingly clear across many domains of health. Dr. Joel Paris is uniquely qualified to reveal and explain the potential harms to mental health in Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry: How Modern Psychiatry Lost Its Way While Creating a Diagnosis for Almost All of Life's Misfortunes.
MoreLong description:
As one of the few books to thoroughly examine the critical problem of over-diagnosis in psychiatry today, Dr. Joel Paris - author of The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5® - shows how over-diagnosis leads to over-treatment in Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry: How Modern Psychiatry Lost Its Way While Creating a Diagnosis for Almost All of Life's Misfortune.
Leaving no stone unturned, Dr. Paris considers the complications of the DSM-5 system with particular reference to major depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. While each of these conditions have given rise to diagnostic fads and epidemics, the classification of mental disorders remains provisional without any biomarkers for mental disorders. Because of this, Dr. Paris makes the case for the importance of conservative diagnoses, recognizing that normal
variants are not necessarily disorders.
Dr. Paris is a psychiatrist who knows his onions and so can make you weep. But the cause is not the onions. He weeps at the current fashion to give everyone a psychiatric diagnosis irrespective of its value or validity. He weeps at the failure to recognise strengths in people rather than weaknesses, and after reading his book we should all gain from one of its key sentences 'it would probably be better to define mental health, not as happiness, but as resilience in
the face of adversity'."
- Peter Tyrer, Professor of Community Psychiatry, Centre for Mental Health, Imperial College, London
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Background
Chapter 1-Diagnosis in psychiatry
Chapter 2-DSM and its discontents
Chapter 3-Over-diagnosis and overtreatment
Chapter 4- Science, philosophy and diagnosis
Part II: Categories Most Likely to Be Over-diagnosed
Chapter 5: How "major " is major depression?
Chapter 6: The boundaries of bipolarity
Chapter 7: PTSD and trauma
Chapter 8-ADHD and attention
Chapter 9-Personality and personality disorder
Chapter 10-Other disorders in which over-diagnosis is a risk
Part III: Diagnosis and Normality
Chapter 11-How do we know what is normal?
Chapter 12-Where do we go from here?
