Preface
Chapter 1. Diagnosing Mental Illness
Chapter 2. The DSM-I and II
Chapter 3. The Path to a Diagnostic Revolution
Chapter 4. The DSM-III
Chapter 5. The DSM-III-R and DSM-IV
Chapter 6. The DSM-5's Failed Revolution
Chapter 7. The DSM as a Social Creation
Notes
References
Index
The first comprehensive history of "psychiatry's bible"—the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Allan V. Horwitz is a Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Rutgers University. He is the author or coauthor of eleven books, including Anxiety: A Short History, PTSD: A Short History, and Creating Mental Illness.
His close look at the DSM is a meticulous blow-by-blow, tracking
its evolution in the context of shifting psychiatric care,
expanding disease taxonomy, growing pharmaceutical influence,
emerging social movements, and a diverse array of personalities and
identities (trans, queer) classified as disorders.
—Amy Biancolli, MAD IN AMERICA
Horowitz tells this sorry tale with skill and panache... It is the
best synthetic account of this territory anyone has produced to
date.
—Andrew Scull, UC San Diego, Los Angeles Review of Books
Horwitz retains a scrupulous objectivity; but nonetheless, the tale
he tells is of one of the most resounding and damaging follies of
modern scientism.
—Will Self, Spectator
Allan Horwitz is to be congratulated on a fine book that deserves
to be read by everyone concerned about the state of psychiatry.
—Robert M Kaplan, University of Western Sydney, Australia, Sushruta
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