The Making of DSM-III: A Diagnostic Manual's Conquest of American Psychiatry

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Overview

This text 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.

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ISBN	0195382234
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Publication date	January 2013
Language	English
Pages	323 pages

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Hannah S. Decker

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