Overdiagnosis in psychiatry how modern psychiatry lost its way while creating a diagnosis for almost all of life's misfortunes / Joel Paris, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University.

Author/creator Paris, Joel, 1940-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Descriptionxix, 181 pages ; 21 cm
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Subjects

Contents Diagnosis in psychiatry -- DSM and its discontents -- Over-diagnosis and overtreatment -- Science, philosophy, and diagnosis -- How 'major' is major depression? -- The boundaries of bipolarity -- PTSD and trauma -- ADHD and attention -- Personality and personality disorder -- Other disorders in which over-diagnosis is a risk -- How do we know what is normal? -- Where do we go from here?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 153-172) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014039665
ISBN9780199350643 (alk. paper)
ISBN0199350647 (alk. paper)

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