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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798211306719 |
| 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 |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (466 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199974405 9780199700301 |
