The making of DSM-III a diagnostic manual's conquest of American psychiatry

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 h...

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Autor principal: Decker, Hannah S. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press c2013.
Edición:1st ed
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section I: The History; 1. A Pivotal Three Decades: American Psychiatry After World War II; Chronicle I: "Weller Than Well"; Chronicle II: "Psychiatry Kills"; Chronicle III: "Schizophrenia in Remission" and "Sexual Deviations"; 2. Emil Kraepelin: Birth of Modern Descriptive Psychiatry; 3. Kraepelin's Progeny: The "Neo-Kraepelinians"; Section II: The People; 4. Robert L. Spitzer, Psychiatric Revolutionary; 5. The DSM-III Task Force and Psychiatric Empiricism; Section III: The Making
  • 6. A Brief History of Modern Classification and Problems with Reliability in Diagnosis7. The Revolution Begins, 1973-1976; 8. A Snapshot in Time: DSM-III in Midstream, 1976; 9. The Eruption of Discord Following the Midstream Conference; 10. Clinicians vs. Researchers Again and New Antagonisms over Sexuality; 11. The Psychoanalytic Awakening to DSM-III; 12. The Field Trials and Yet More Controversies; 13. The Final Weeks; Conclusion; Notes; Interviews; Bibliography; About the Author; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z