%0 Journal Article
%T L¡¯angoisse comme maladie et la gen¨¨se du DSM-III et DSM-IV - La ansiedad como afecci¨®n y la g¨¦nesis del DSM-III y DSM-IV.
%A Christopher Lane
%J Electroneurobiolog¨ªa
%D 2008
%I 
%X Half the U.S. population is described as being in some way mentally ill, and nearly a quarter of its citizens have taken antidepressants. These statistics have sparked a widespread debate about whether people are taking far more medication than is needed for problems that may not even be mental disorders. To help settle this long-standing dispute, the author studied why the number of recognized psychiatric disorders has ballooned so dramatically in recent decades. He concludes that over-medication would affect fewer people if over-diagnosis could be reined in. The thresholds for psychiatric diagnosis would have to be set a lot higher, resurrecting a now-lost distinction between chronic illness and mild suffering. / Casi la mitad de los estadounidenses se reputan mentalmente enfermos. Casi la cuarta parte ha tomado antidepresivos. Esas estad¨ªsticas desencadenaron brioso debate sobre si la poblaci¨®n no est¨¢ tomando muchos m¨¢s medicamentos de lo necesario, para problemas que pueden no ser siquiera trastornos mentales. Para contribuir a zanjar la prolongada pol¨¦mica, el autor investig¨® por qu¨¦ el n¨²mero de enfermedades psiqui¨¢tricas admitidas se hab¨ªa disparado espectacularmente. Comenta aqu¨ª sus conclusiones: la sobremedicaci¨®n afectar¨ªa a menos gente si se pudieran refrenar los excesos diagn¨®sticos. Los umbrales para diagn¨®sticos psiqui¨¢tricos deben elevarse mucho m¨¢s y debe resucitarse la distinci¨®n entre enfermedad cr¨®nica y padecimiento leve (Article in French and Spanish - ¨¦dition bilinguale / edici¨®n biling¨¹e).
%K DSM-III
%K DSMIV
%K DSMV
%K DSM5: MDE-III
%K MDE-IV
%K MDE-5
%K MDE-V
%K sanitarismo
%K medicina sanitaria
%K salud p¨²blica
%K salud mental
%K pol¨ªticas p¨²blicas
%U http://electroneubio.secyt.gov.ar/Chr_Lane_La_gran_ansiedad.htm