THE SELLING OF DSM by Stuart A. Kirk, Herb Kutchins ( 9780202304311 )

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Title:

THE SELLING OF DSM
THE RHETORIC OF SCIENCE IN PSYCHIATRY

By:

Stuart A. Kirk, Herb Kutchins

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0202304310

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9780202304311

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC

Pub. date:

31 December, 1992

Series:

Social Problems & Social Issues

Pages:

270

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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