Allen Frances

Allen J. "Al" Frances (born 1942) is an American psychiatrist. He was chair of the DSM-IV Task Force.^[1] He also served as Chair of the department of psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine. He is currently professor emeritus at Duke.

Frances co-authored Am I Okay?: A Layman's Guide to the Psychiatrist's Bible with psychiatrist Michael First.^[2]

Frances has been critical of proposed revisions to the DSM-5. In a 2010 Wired interview, therapist Gary Greenberg wrote, "The fact that diseases can be invented (or, as with homosexuality, uninvented) and their criteria tweaked in response to social conditions is exactly what worries critics like Frances about some of the disorders proposed for the DSM-5—not only attenuated psychotic symptoms syndrome but also binge eating disorder, temper dysregulation disorder, and other 'sub-threshold' diagnoses."^[3]

References

External links

• Psychiatrists Propose Revisions to Diagnosis Manual. via PBS Newshour, Feb 10, 2010 (interviews Frances and Alan Schatzberg on some of the main changes proposed to the DSM-5)

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