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The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry (Social Problems & Social Issues) - Hardcover

Kirk, Stuart A.

 
9780202304311: The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry (Social Problems & Social Issues)
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ISBN 10: 0202304310 ISBN 13: 9780202304311
Publisher: Aldine Transaction, 1992

Synopsis

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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Stuart A. Kirk

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Publisher
Aldine Transaction
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0202304310
ISBN 13 
9780202304311
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
270

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