In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association decided to publish a revised edition of their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). There was great hope that a new manual would display psychiatry as a scientific field and aid in combating the attacks of an aggressive anti-psychiatry movement that had persisted for more than a decade.
The Making of DSM-III(R) is a book about the manual that resulted in 1980-DSM-III-a far-reaching revisionist work...