EBOOK Making of DSM-IIIRG: A Diagnostic Manual's Conquest of American Psychiatry
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A Diagnostic Manual's Conquest of American Psychiatry
The Making of DSM-IIIRG 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. Decker's revealing book expertly recreates the stone-by-stone construction of a controversial, conflict-laden diagnostic manual and showcases the remarkable and tenacious handiwork of its creator, Robert L. Spitzer.
The Making of DSM-IIIRG 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. Decker's revealing book expertly recreates the stone-by-stone construction of a controversial, conflict-laden diagnostic manual and showcases the remarkable and tenacious handiwork of its creator, Robert L. Spitzer.