The making of DSM-III : a diagnostic manual's conquest of American psychiatry / Hannah S. Decker.

By:

Decker, Hannah S [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780199700301
9780199974405

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

RC455 .M355 2013

Online resources:

Click to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password

Available additional physical forms:

Contents:

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.

Subject: 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-IIIRG is a book about the manual that resulted in 1980-DSM-III-a far-reaching revisionist work that created a revolution in American psychiatry. Its development precipitated a historic clash between the DSM-III Task Force--a group of descriptive.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	RC455.2.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn847527252

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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-IIIRG is a book about the manual that resulted in 1980-DSM-III-a far-reaching revisionist work that created a revolution in American psychiatry. Its development precipitated a historic clash between the DSM-III Task Force--a group of descriptive.

https://lib.ciu.edu/copyright-request-form

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.