American Psychiatrist Professor Emeritus Allen Frances responds to my question about how a patient and or his relatives may help a psychiatrist to avoid unnecessary interventions

Dear Earth Citizens,

       By writing books, papers & blogs and also presenting several talks and interviews, American Psychiatrist Professor Emeritus Allen Frances warns about the overdiagnosis and overtreatment in Psychiatry.  See his page, title of his books and his two blogs in PsychologyToday :

http://www.psychologytoday.com/experts/allen-j-frances-md

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/saving-normal

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dsm5-in-distress

In response to my question about how a patient and or his relatives may help a psychiatrist to avoid unnecessary interventions Dr. Frances sent me a short clip.  Here is the clip: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leHUoiePB2Q

Recently he wrote: “In recent years, psychiatry has embraced what a former president of the American Psychiatric Association has despairingly called a "bio/bio/bio" model. The enormous research budget of the National Institute Of Mental Health has been totally invested in biologically reductionist brain and genomic research.”  

See the fulltext of his Essay here :

http://educationupdate.com/allenfrances/2014/12/putting-the-mind-and-soul-back-into-psychiatry.html#.VJmvqcJucA