The Making of DSM-III

The Making of DSM-III

A Diagnostic Manual's Conquest of American Psychiatry

by Hannah S. Decker

443 pages· 2013· ISBN 9780195382235
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This book 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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