Allen Frances, MD

Allen Frances, MD, former chair of the Task Force for DSM IV, professor emeritus, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.

Stop Medicating “Normal”
Mental Health

Stop Medicating “Normal”

Allen Frances, MD | August 1, 2021

Feeling your emotions doesn’t mean you have a psychiatric disorder

Psychiatric Fads Are Leading to Overdiagnosis of Mental Illness
Mental Health

Psychiatric Fads Are Leading to Overdiagnosis of Mental Illness

Allen Frances, MD | May 14, 2014

Is the normal person an endangered species? Psychiatrist Allen Frances, MD, posed that question in a recent essay published in…