DSM

DSM
Author :
Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 228
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781421440705
ISBN-13 : 1421440709
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Book Synopsis DSM by : Allan V. Horwitz

Download or read book DSM written by Allan V. Horwitz and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of "psychiatry's bible"—the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Over the past seventy years, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, has evolved from a virtually unknown and little-used pamphlet to an imposing and comprehensive compendium of mental disorder. Its nearly 300 conditions have become the touchstones for the diagnoses that patients receive, students are taught, researchers study, insurers reimburse, and drug companies promote. Although the manual is portrayed as an authoritative corpus of psychiatric knowledge, it is a product of intense political conflicts, dissension, and factionalism. The manual results from struggles among psychiatric researchers and clinicians, different mental health professions, and a variety of patient, familial, feminist, gay, and veterans' interest groups. The DSM is fundamentally a social document that both reflects and shapes the professional, economic, and cultural forces associated with its use. In DSM, Allan V. Horwitz examines how the manual, known colloquially as "psychiatry's bible," has been at the center of thinking about mental health in the United States since its original publication in 1952. The first book to examine its entire history, this volume draws on both archival sources and the literature on modern psychiatry to show how the history of the DSM is more a story of the growing social importance of psychiatric diagnoses than of increasing knowledge about the nature of mental disorder. Despite attempts to replace it, Horwitz argues that the DSM persists because its diagnostic entities are closely intertwined with too many interests that benefit from them. This comprehensive treatment should appeal to not only specialists but also anyone who is interested in how diagnoses of mental illness have evolved over the past seven decades—from unwanted and often imposed labels to resources that lead to valued mental health treatments and social services.


DSM Related Books

DSM
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Allan V. Horwitz
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-17 - Publisher: JHU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The first comprehensive history of "psychiatry's bible"—the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Over the past seventy years, the Diagnostic
Making Us Crazy
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Herb Kutchins
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-09-18 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A persuasive and passionate plea from two mental health professionals to ease use of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders under their belief th
The Selling of DSM
Language: en
Pages: 438
Authors: Stuart A. Kirk
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-29 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 radic
Saving Normal
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Allen Frances, M.D.
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-14 - Publisher: Harper Collins

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From "the most powerful psychiatrist in America" (New York Times) and "the man who wrote the book on mental illness" (Wired), a deeply fascinating and urgently
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Language: en
Pages: 601
Authors: Dr Katharine Phillips
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-12 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This landmark book is the first comprehensive edited volume on body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a common and severe disorder. People with BDD are preoccupied wit