Should Psychiatrists Really Decide about Psychiatry? (with DSM-4 Chair Allen Frances‪)‬ What’s Next in Mental Health?

About a decade ago, one of the most influential psychiatrists of our time, started speaking out against over-medicalization and vested interests corroding the diagnostic system in psychiatry - a system he had helped pioneer. Professor Emeritus Allen Frances points to systemic biases with specialists pushing to expand their own speciality. Dr. Frances has protested about the pharmaceutical industry capitalizing on this expansion and suggested that the exceptionally lucrative Diagnostic a...