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DSM : a history of psychiatry's bible
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"This book tells a history of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), known as "psychiatry's bible." It has been at the center of thinking about mental health in the United...
"This book tells a history of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), known as "psychiatry's bible." It has been at the center of thinking about mental health in the United States since it was first published in 1952. The author covers its various editions and their cultural and political effects"--
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- Creator
- Allan V. Horwitz
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021
- ©2021
- Physical Details
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- x, 215 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781421440705, 1421440695, 1421440709, 9781421440699
- OCLC
- on1250598716, on1164825880
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Diagnosing Mental Illness -- The DSM-I and DSM-II -- The Path to a Diagnostic Revolution -- The DSM-III -- The DSM-IIIR and DSM-IV -- The DSM-5's Failed Revolution -- The DSM as a Social Creation
Subjects
- Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- History.
- Psychiatry -- History.
- Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.
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- Mental Disorders -- classification
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- Mental Disorders -- diagnosis
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- Psychiatry -- history
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- History, 20th Century
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- History, 21st Century
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- United States.
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