Overdiagnosis in psychiatry: how modern psychiatry lost its way while creating a diagnosis for almost all of life's misfortunes

As one of the few resources to thoroughly examine the critical problem of over-diagnosis in psychiatry today, this title covers how over-diagnosis in psychiatric practice may lead to over-treatment.

It considers the complications of the DSM-5 classification system, with particular reference to major depression, bipolar disorder, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

While each of these conditions have given rise to diagnostic fads and epidemics, the classification of mental disorders remains provisional without any biomarkers for mental disorders.