Allen Frances
Nato: February 14, 1942 – New York City, New York, United States
Allen Frances is an American psychiatrist and author focused on psychiatric diagnosis, mental health policy, and the risks of overdiagnosis. He is best known for chairing the DSM-IV Task Force and for books such as Saving Normal and Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis, which made him a prominent critic of diagnostic inflation.
Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore
Allen Frances built his career at the intersection of psychiatry, diagnosis, and public argument. Growing up in New York, he was steered toward medicine by a practical family sense of security, but he has said the deeper attraction was intellectual: as a teenager he was already reading Freud, philosophers, and Dostoevsky, and psychiatry seemed to unite the humanities, science, and the wish to help people. He earned his M.D. at the State University of New York in Brooklyn in 1967, completed psychiatric residency by 1971, later chaired the DSM-IV task force, and went on to become professor and chairman emeritus at Duke. ((https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freud-fluoxetine/202104/allen-frances-portrait-the-psychiatrist-young-man/amp))
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Saving Normal
Allen Frances
A prominent psychiatrist's urgent critique of over-diagnosis and over-medication in modern mental health, advocating for reclaiming normalcy.
Twilight of American Sanity
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A psychiatrist's incisive analysis of Trump's presidency and America's societal issues, offering insights into the national psyche and potential solutions.
Saving Normal
Allen Frances
A prominent psychiatrist's urgent critique of over-diagnosis and over-medication in modern mental health, advocating for reclaiming normalcy.
Twilight of American Sanity
Allen Frances
A psychiatrist's incisive analysis of Trump's presidency and America's societal issues, offering insights into the national psyche and potential solutions.
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"Daniel Goleman called Allen Frances "perhaps the most powerful psychiatrist in America."
— Daniel Goleman
"The New Yorker said Allen Frances "unravel the national psyche that brought our politics to this moment."
— The New Yorker
"Marcia Angell wrote that Allen Frances has written a fascinating account of the explosion in psychiatric disorders"
— Marcia Angell
"WIRED called Allen Frances "the guy who wrote the book on mental illness."
— WIRED
"Psychotherapy Networker called Allen Frances an eminent psychiatrist, researcher, and writer"
— Psychotherapy Networker
"Publishers Weekly said few are as well-equipped as Allen Frances to map the dynamic field of psychiatry"
— Publishers Weekly
"The Atlantic called Allen Frances "one of the world's most prominent psychiatrists."
— The Atlantic
"The Washington Post described Allen Frances as the psychiatrist who headed the task force that wrote DSM-IV"
— The Washington Post
"Booklist said Allen Frances justly doles out blame and offers reasonable remedies"
— Booklist
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