Making of Dsm-Iii(r): A Diagnostic Manual's Conquest of American Psychiatry

by Hannah S. Decker

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-III is a book about the manual that resulted in 1980-DSM-III-a far-reaching revisionist work...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195382234
• ISBN13: 9780195382235
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"