I don't think it's the psychiatry, psychology, etc that you should suspect...it's the insurance companies, the leaders, and all that bureaucracy that involves our mental health system. Although, there will always be those bad apples, as there are in every group, that want to diagnose everyone they meet and medicate everything under the sun. However, that is not the norm. There are many of us that do not want to diagnose everyone after only one visit with some DSM-V code. But we have to, for billing purpose. For insurance. Insurance companies force us to put everyone in a box, and check it. It's beyond frustrating because you cannot get an accurate picture of who the person is after only an hour. You cannot know them, their illness after only an hour. And to have to label them, after such a short time...it is inhuman. But that is not the DSM-V's fault. The DSM was only created to help, and the information placed in it is based on research and theory. I do think that grows so much with our human need to label everything, to put everyone into an identifiable category. Especially when it involves something abnormal. We've always done this. The reason this field is so 'less time to talk, more drugs, more diagnoses' lately is not because we want it that way. It's because of the standards that are constantly being tossed down to us. The quick-fixes that the government/insurances expect so that they don't have to pay for it. Our mental health system needs an overhaul.
I don't blame the people that do this. It's not why they do this. I know it's not why I got into this field. It's the big dogs. It's the people that turned this field into a business.