On the overdiagnosis of mental illness

Allen J. Frances headed the DSM IV taks force.  In retrospect, he is unhappy about his work on the DSM and he is very critical of DSM 5. 

In this 2012 lecture, Diagnostic Inflation: Does Everyone Have a Mental Illness?, he outlines why he thinks the DSM 5 will lead to millions of people being mislabeled with mental disorders. 

Here's a sequence of the lecture:

Check out the complete lecture on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuCwVnzSjWA