Click here to watch: “Allen J. Frances on the Overdiagnosis of Mental Illness” via YouTube. The video comes from his lecture, Diagnostic Inflation: Does Everyone Have a Mental Illness?
Please see below for some commentary from our Managing Editor, N. Szajnberg, MD.
This is a crisp, forthright account of “rising” incidence of psychiatric disorders in the US (especially when compared to other Western societies) and the social/fiscal factors that artificially inflate “diagnoses,” outside of scientific or clinical considerations.
