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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2013.
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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.