The Selling of Dsm: The Rhetoric of Science in PsychiatryWhen 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. |
Contents
The Transformation of Psychiatric Troubles | 17 |
The Social Control of Error | 47 |
Making a Manual | 77 |
A Careful Look at the Field Trials | 121 |
Reliability and the Remarkable Achievement | 133 |
The Art of ClaimMaking | 161 |
Securing Diagnostic Turf | 199 |
The Social Context of Diagnostic Error | 219 |
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The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry Stuart A. Kirk,Herb Kutchins No preview available - 1992 |
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