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Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis (Hardcover)
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Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis (Hardcover)
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The public has a right to know that when they go to a therapist,
they are almost certain to be given a psychiatric diagnosis, no
matter how mild or normal their problems might be. It is unlikely
that they will be told that a diagnosis will be written forever in
their chart and that alarming consequences can result solely from
having any psychiatric diagnosis. It would be disturbing enough if
diagnosis was a thoroughly scientific process, but it is not, and
its unscientific nature creates a vacuum into which biases of all
kinds can rush. Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis is the first book
ever published about how gender, race, social class, age, physical
disability, and sexual orientation affect the classification of
human beings into categories of psychiatric diagnosis. It is
surprising that this kind of book is not yet on the market, because
it is such a hot topic, and the negative consequences of
psychiatric diagnosis range from loss of custody of a child to
denial of health insurance and employment to removal of one's right
to make decisions about one's legal affairs. It is an unusually
compelling book because of its real-life relevance for millions of
people. Virtually everyone these days has been a therapy patient or
has a loved one who has been. In addition, psychiatric diagnosis
and biases in diagnosis are increasingly crucial portions of, or
the main subject of, legal proceedings. This book should sit next
to every doctor's PDR, especially given the skyrocketing use of
psychoactive drugs in toddlers, children, and adolescents, as well
as in adults, and especially because receiving a psychiatric label
vastly increases the chances of being prescribed one or more of
these drugs. A Jason Aronson Book
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