The Sadness Business

<p>Have you lost a loved one? Your sadness becomes depression. Your child is a little too lively? He or she may be a danger to society. Do you have a penchant for cake? You have a psychiatric disorder.</p><p>The new standard way of thinking about mental health dictated by the publication of an international guide the <em>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders</em> is authorian and overshadows Therapeutic Listening in favor of the drug treatment-its latest version the DSM-5 lists more than 350 diseases.</p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Patrick Landman exposes the abuses of such a takeover-the range of normality is reduced and we all become consumers of psychotropic drugs and even potential lunatics.</span></p>