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EBOOK All We Have to Fear:Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199793914
EAN: B6898F53EB
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Stron: 320
Data wydania: 2012
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Thirty years ago, it was estimated that less than five percent of the population        had an anxiety disorder. Today, some estimates are over fifty percent, a tenfold        increase. Is this dramatic rise evidence of a real medical epidemic?In All We Have        to Fear, Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield argue that psychiatry itself has largely        generated this "e;epidemic"e; by inflating many natural fears into psychiatric        disorders, leading to the over-diagnosis of anxiety disorders and the        over-prescription of anxiety-reducing drugs. American psychiatry currently        identifies disordered anxiety as irrational anxiety disproportionate to a real        threat. Horwitz and Wakefield argue, to the contrary, that it can be a perfectly        normal part of our nature to fear things that are not at all dangerous--from heights        to negative judgments by others to scenes that remind us of past threats (as in some        forms of PTSD). Indeed, this book argues strongly against the tendency to call any        distressing condition a "e;mental disorder."e; To counter this trend, the authors        provide an innovative and nuanced way to distinguish between anxiety conditions that        are psychiatric disorders and likely require medical treatment and those that are        not--the latter including anxieties that seem irrational but are the natural        products of evolution. The authors show that many commonly diagnosed "e;irrational"e;        fears--such as a fear of snakes, strangers, or social evaluation--have evolved over        time in response to situations that posed serious risks to humans in the past, but        are no longer dangerous today.Drawing on a wide range of disciplines including        psychiatry, evolutionary psychology, sociology, anthropology, and history, the book        illuminates the nature of anxiety in America, making a major contribution to our        understanding of mental health.

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