The Selling of DSM
The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry
Published on 29. September 2017
270 pages
978-1-351-47434-4 (ISBN)
Description
When it was first published in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition-univer-sally known as DSM-III-embodied a radical new method for identifying psychiatric illness. Kirk and Kutchins challenge the general understanding about the research data and the pro-cess that led to the peer acceptance of DSM-III. Their original and controversial reconstruction of that moment concen-trates on how a small group of researchers interpreted their findings about a specific problem-psychiatric reliability-to promote their beliefs about mental illness and to challenge the then-dominant Freudian paradigm.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
11,88 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-47434-4 (9781351474344)
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Content
Psychiatric Diagnosis and the New Bible; The Transformation of Psychiatric Troubles; The Social Control of Error; Making a Manual; A Careful Look at the Field Trials; Reliability and the Remarkable Achievement; The Art of Claim-Making; Securing Diagnostic Turf; The Social Context of Diagnostic Error
