The Unfragile Mind

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A timely, layered approach to the overdiagnosis epidemic in our mental health climate—from a doctor and internationally acclaimed author—that makes the case for applying compassion and curiosity rather than strict labels "I thought Gavin Francis couldn't get any better, but I was wrong. This is his best and most important book."? Bill Bryson, New York Times–bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body According to the National Institute for Mental Health, over fifty-nine million adults and nearly a fifth of adolescents in the US have been diagnosed with some form of mental illness, with about 50 percent receiving treatment. But the explosion in diagnoses over the last ten years may be doing more harm than good: encouraging patients to define their identities in terms of their deficits, contributing to the overprescribing of pharmaceutical drugs, and saddling a generation with constricting labels that can linger long