The making of DSM-III
Subtitle: a diagnostic manual's conquest of American psychiatry
By: Hannah S. Decker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9780195382235
Subjects: Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders; Classification; Psychiatry; History, 20th Century; Mental Disorders; History
Other titles: The making of DSM-3
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-420) and index.
Table of contents: title: A pivotal three decades : American psychiatry after World War II; title: Emil Kraepelin : birth of modern descriptive psychiatry; title: Kraepelin's progeny : the neo-Kraepelinians; title: Robert L. Spitzer, psychiatric revolutionary; title: The DSM-III Task Force and psychiatric empiricism; title: A brief history of modern classification and problems with reliability in diagnosis; title: The revolution begins, 1973-1976; title: A snapshot in time : DSM-III in midstream, 1976; title: The eruption of discord following the midstream conference; title: Clinicians vs. researchers again and new antagonisms over sexuality; title: The psychoanalytic awakening to DSM-III; title: The field trials and yet more controversies; title: The final weeks.