U.S PSYCHIATRIST CRITICISES AUSTRALIAN-USED DIAGNOSIS AS “TOO RISKY” AND “POTENTIALLY HARMFUL”

Australian psychiatrist Patrick McGorry’s “Psychosis Risk Syndrome” has been shot down as “too risky, ill-conceived and potentially harmful” by the head of psychiatry’s Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), Allen Frances. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dsm5-in-distress/201003/dsm5-psychosis-risk-syndrome-far-too-risky