IN PERSON: What is or isn’t a mental disorder, and what is “normal”? In this course, through lecture and open discussion, we will explore the explosion of mental disorders and diagnostic inflation in psychiatry and its implications for society, including the medicalization of ordinary life. Students will learn about the history of psychiatric diagnosis from shamans to “shrinks” as well as the fads in psychiatry of the past and present. We will explore the most recent changes in diagnosis with the new "DSM-5TR" and ask, can diagnostic inflation be tamed? | Lecture + Q&A.
Max enrollment: 20.
Location: Judea Reform Congregation, 1933 W. Cornwallis Rd, Durham NC 27705
