Dr Allen Frances, MD-Saving Normal with Scott Cluthe Live on P I Radio
b'Join Scott Cluthe on FACEBOOK HERE\\xa0\\n\\nJoin Scott\'s FREE NEWSLETTER HERE\\xa0\\n\\nGet a FREE BOOK of Your Choice HERE\\n\\nLive tonight Dr Allen Frances, MD and Scott Cluthe discuss Saving Normal & out of control psychiatric diagnosis in America.\\xa0\\n\\nFrom "the most powerful psychiatrist in America" (New York Times) and "the man who wrote the book on mental illness" (Wired), a deeply fascinating and urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization of normality\\n\\nAnyone living a full, rich life experiences ups and downs, stresses, disappointments, sorrows, and setbacks. These challenges are a normal part of being human, and they should not be treated as psychiatric disease. However, today millions of people who are really no more than "worried well" are being diagnosed as having a mental disorder and are receiving unnecessary treatment. In\\xa0Saving Normal, Allen Frances, one of the world\'s most influential psychiatrists, warns that mislabeling everyday problems as mental illness has shocking implications for individuals and society: stigmatizing a healthy person as mentally ill leads to unnecessary, harmful medications, the narrowing of horizons, misallocation of medical resources, and draining of the budgets of families and the nation. We also shift responsibility for our mental well-being away from our own naturally resilient and self-healing brains, which have kept us sane for hundreds of thousands of years, and into the hands of "Big Pharma".'