Allen Frances

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Allen James Frances (born in New York City in 1942 ) is an American psychiatrist . He chaired the working group that was responsible for the fourth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) in 1994. The DSM is the classification system of the American Psychiatric Association and corresponds to Chapter V of ICD-10 .

Frances is also known for criticizing the current version, the DSM-5 . He warns that the expansion of psychiatric boundaries will cause an inflation in psychiatric diagnoses that will lead to over-therapy of the "imaginary sick", diverting psychiatry from its real purpose, namely treating the severely mentally ill. He initiated a petition against the publication of the manual because he feared that the new standard work would lead to hyperinflation of mental illnesses, especially among children and adolescents.

education

Allen J. Frances received his bachelor's degrees in economics and medical prep from Columbia College in 1963 and graduated from Downstate Medical Center in 1967. He completed his psychiatric residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute in 1971. He received his certificate in psychoanalysis in 1978 from Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

Frances is widowed and lives in Coronado , California.

Scientific activity

He began his scientific career at Cornell University Medical College , where he was soon professor and head of the outpatient department. Frances developed specialized research clinics for schizophrenia , depression , anxiety disorders and AIDS . During his academic career, Frances conducted research in a wide range of clinical areas including personality disorders , chronic depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, AIDS and psychotherapy . In his book Differential Therapeutics in Psychiatry , Frances tries to show how effective treatment planning can look without mechanically orienting the treatment towards a suitable diagnosis.

His research into therapeutic limits culminated in his 1981 publication, No Treatment as the Prescription of Choice . In total, Frances wrote several hundred publications and around a dozen books.

Frances was the founder and editor of two journals that have become the standard trade journals: the Journal of Personality Disorders and the Journal of Psychiatric Practice . In 1991 he became dean of the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine, where he expanded the research, training, and clinical programs initiated by his predecessor, Bernard Carroll. He is now professor emeritus .

In addition to his academic work, Frances has written on professional topics for The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Huffington Post and Pathology Today, among others .

Fonts (selection)

  • Twilight of American Sanity. A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump , William Morrow
    • America on the couch. A psychiatrist analyzes the Trump era. Translated by Kathrin Bielfeldt and Jürgen Bürger. DuMont, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-8321-8991-4 .
  • Saving Normal: an insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, big pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life . New York, NY: William Morrow, 2014
    • Normal. Against the inflation of psychiatric diagnoses . Translation Barbara Schaden. With e. Afterword by Geert Keil. Dumont, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-8321-9700-1 .
  • with Michael B. First: Am I Okay? A Layman's Guide to the Psychiatrist's Bible. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000 ISBN 978-0-6848-5961-3 .
  • Treatment of schizophrenia . Memphis, TN: Physicians Postgraduate Press, 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allen James Frances, MD. , at Duke University , accessed January 4, 2014
  2. ^ D. Goleman, Allen J. Frances; Revamping Psychiatrists' Bible New York Times, April 19, 1994
  3. ^ Psychologists Start Petition Against DSM 5 in Psychology today
  4. ↑ http://www.derbund.ch/wissen/medizin-und-psychologie/Ein-Kaempfer-wider-den-Diagnosewahn/story/29671448 daily newspaper Der Bund from December 8, 2012 on the occasion of a conference of the Swiss Club for Science Journalism in Balsthal SO
  5. ↑ http://www.derbund.ch/wissen/medizin-und-psychologie/Wir-haben-die-Unreife-von-Kinder-in-Krankheit-verwandelt/story/19731387 Saturday interview in the daily newspaper Der Bund on January 4th 2014 with Allen Frances: DSM 5 will create millions of new patients. The new standard work of psychiatry leads to hyperinflation of mental illnesses.
  6. ↑ a b reference books, software and DVDs | America on the couch. | media service medicine. Retrieved May 16, 2018 .
  7. ^ A. Frances, Differential Therapeutics in Psychiatry, Bruner Meisel U; 1st edition (1984), ISBN 0-87630-360-2
  8. ^ A. Frances, JF Clarkin: No treatment as the prescription of choice. In: Archives of General Psychiatry . Volume 38, Number 5, May 1981, pp. 542-545, ISSN  0003-990X . PMID 7235855
  9. ^ Journal of Personality Disorders
  10. ^ Journal of Psychiatric Practice
personal data
SURNAME Frances, Allen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frances, Allen James; Frances, Allen J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City