num_pages: 466
description: This text chronicles how American psychiatry went from its psychoanalytic heyday in the 1940s and '50s, through the virulent anti-psychiatry of the 1960s and '70s, into the late 20th-century descriptive, criteria-grounded model of mental disorders.
language: English
title: The Making of DSM-III: A Diagnostic Manual's Conquest of American Psychiatry
publisher: Oxford University Press