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Podcast: Love and Life with Dr. Karin and Pastor Elliott
Episode: When We “Medicalize” Our Emotions: Beyond the DSM with Dr. Steven C. Hayes Ep. 122
Description: “More than one in four women take medication to treat a mental health condition” (Medco Health Solutions). Are 25% of us actually clinically depressed and anxious? Or, might diagnostic inflation be at work? Psychologist Dr. Steven C. Hayes speaks to this and more in his new book, Beyond the DSM: Toward a Process-Based Alternative for Diagnosis and Mental Health Treatment. Join us for a conversation about:
· The excessive biomedicalization of the human condition.
· How a DSM diagnosis may make us more passive and less responsible for our own emotional well-being.
· The notion of “having” a psychiatric illness vs. assess...