Dsm: A History of Psychiatry's Bible

by Allan V Horwitz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421440695
• ISBN13: 9781421440699
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.1"