Your Child Does Not Have Bipolar Disorder
The bad science and misdiagnosis of childhood bipolar disorder.
There are many temptations to organize our life around the experience of earlier trauma. But that may short-change the future—which starts by our envisioning something better.
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The bad science and misdiagnosis of childhood bipolar disorder.
The major context for this blog is the publication of my book, Your Child Does Not Have Bipolar Disorder: How Bad Science and Good Public Relations Created the Diagnosis. I'm a fierce critic of the diagnosis in children and its overdiagnosis in adolescents. My book describes the failures of organized psychiatry, the pharmaceutical industry, and the media that led to the acceptance of the disorder.In this blog I go beyond what is in the book to extend my critique to current developments about bipolar disorder in children and adolescents.