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

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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Decker, Hannah S. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press 2013.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35588986*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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