International DSM-5 Response Committee, named after the upcoming fifth incarnation of that diagnostic manual, plans to launch a campaign next month aimed at blocking the manual’s May 20 release. Short of that, critics plan to press ahead with their case that the DSM-5 should be viewed with some skepticism and not wholly embraced by practitioners or patients.
There’s a great deal of a concern, so we are hardly voices in the wilderness, said Dr. Allen Frances, author of the book Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt Against Out of Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life. He is largely credited with spearheading anti-DMS-5 efforts.
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