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Is Psychiatry Overdiagnosing Normal Life? | Dr. Patricia Casey

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Is Psychiatry Overdiagnosing Normal Life? | Dr. Patricia Casey

6 octobre 202638:49
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Are we turning normal life struggles into mental illness and teaching people to see themselves as broken? Dr. Patricia Casey, professor emeritus of psychiatry at University College Dublin and author of 14 books, joins Richard Taite to question how modern psychiatry defines and treats mental health.Dr. Casey explains why grief, stress and sadness are often healthy responses rather than illnesses, what adjustment disorder really is and why it's so often misdiagnosed, why checkbox screening tools…