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Author Decker, Hannah S

Title The making of DSM-III : a diagnostic manual's conquest of American psychiatry / Hannah S. Decker
Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 443 pages) : illustrations
Contents A pivotal three decades : American psychiatry after World War II -- Emil Kraepelin : birth of modern descriptive psychiatry -- Kraepelin's progeny : the neo-Kraepelinians -- Robert L. Spitzer, psychiatric revolutionary -- The DSM-III Task Force and psychiatric empiricism -- A brief history of modern classification and problems with reliability in diagnosis -- The revolution begins, 1973-1976 -- A snapshot in time : DSM-III in midstream, 1976 -- The eruption of discord following the midstream conference -- Clinicians vs. researchers again and new antagonisms over sexuality -- The psychoanalytic awakening to DSM-III -- The field trials and yet more controversies -- The final weeks
Summary In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association decided to publish a revised edition of their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). There was great hope that a new manual would display psychiatry as a scientific field and aid in combating the attacks of an aggressive anti-psychiatry movement that had persisted for more than a decade. The Making of DSM-IIIRG is a book about the manual that resulted in 1980-DSM-III-a far-reaching revisionist work that created a revolution in American psychiatry. Its development precipitated a historic clash between the DSM-III Task Force--a group of descriptive
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007150927
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders fast
Subject Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Mental illness -- United States -- Classification -- History -- 20th century
Psychiatry -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Psychiatry -- history
History, 20th Century
Mental Disorders -- classification
MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- General.
Mental illness
Mental illness -- Diagnosis
Psychiatry
United States
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012039676
ISBN 9780199700301
0199700303
0199974403
9780199974405