The Bipolar Spectrum: Diagnosis or Fad?

In the s, author Joel Paris was one of the first doctors in his hospital to prescribe lithium to a psychiatric patient. This book opens discussion about the overdiagnosis of bipolar disorder and the negative impact of this development on clinical care. Paris explores why patients are being classified as bipolar on dubious grounds and are being prescribed drugs they do not need.

He explains the differences between bipolar disorder and depression without mania, personality disorders characterized by unstable mood, and impulsive disorders. A separate chapter discusses the unique issues present in the field of child psychiatry. Fads remain popular as long as they answer elusive and complex questions.

Unfortunately, the bipolar spectrum being used to explain a wide variety of psychopathological phenomena has caused classic bipolar disorder to become almost lost in the shuffle.

Combining research findings and personal experiences, Dr. Paris documents the damage of overdiagnosis and explores alternative treatments patients could benefit from. Flowing text, Original pages.

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Please follow the detailed Help center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders. Joel Paris's Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry takes a much-needed look at the dangerous epidemic of unnecessary or incorrect treatments. The last 30 years of psychiatry have seen the development of a system of classification aimed at establishing greater scientific credibility.

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In children and adolescents, it should be recognized that mood stabilizers have an anti-impulsive effect 8 , which is shared with neuroleptics and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors SSRIs , that could produce therapeutic results that could have nothing to do with mood. Psychiatrists like to diagnose conditions they can treat.

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The increase in bipolar diagnoses reflected the great success of lithium. This sort of thing has happened before in the history of our discipline. In the s, when electroconvulsive therapy was shown to be effective for depression, psychiatrists prescribed it indiscriminately to many patients with depressive symptoms.

Similar scenarios emerged with the use of neuroleptics, tricyclic antidepressants, and SSRIs.

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Prescribing patterns have paralleled the susceptibility of psychiatry to diagnostic fads. I believe there has been a rush to judgment about the bipolar spectrum.