Download or read book The Making of DSM-III written by Hannah S. Decker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles how American psychiatry went from its psychoanalytic heyday in the 1940s and '50s, through the virulent anti-psychiatry of the 1960s and '70s, into the late 20th-century descriptive, criteria-grounded model of mental disorders.