Politics and Psychiatric Classification

• Published in: Contemporary psychology Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 310 - 311
• Main Authors: Blashfield, Roger K., Cheong, Josepha A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.03.1994
• Subjects: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual; Human; Psychiatry

Reviews the book, The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry by Stuart A. Kirk and Herb Kutchins (1992). This book discusses how the various editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) have evolved since the 1950s. In particular, the authors focus on th...