The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry

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Routledge, 29.09.2017 - 270 Seiten

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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Acknowledgments
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 ClaimMaking
Securing Diagnostic Turf
The Social Context of Diagnostic Error
References
Index
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