But saving normal is not the same as arguing that everyone is normal: "This shibboleth can be believed only by armchair theorists with no real experience in having, living with, or treating mental ...
Wary of liberties being taken by the psychiatric community with its definition of “normal,” Frances (Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis) goes on a sobering foray through mental disorders and the ...
In the early 1990s, American psychiatrist Allen Frances was chair of the taskforce that created the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV (DSM-IV) (published in 1994) ...