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The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry

The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry

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Series: Social Problems & Social Issues

Medical ReferenceMental HealthPoverty & Social Work

Publisher Price: $59.95

ISBN10: 0202304329
ISBN13: 9780202304328
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 30 1992
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

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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