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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual: Mental Disorders
"The American Psychiatric Association's Committee on Nomenclature and Statistics has been participating during the past few years, with the U. S. Committee on Classification of Diseases, in the World Health Organization's Revision Conferences in preparation for the Eighth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases. Those conferences are now terminated. In May, 1966, a classification of mental disorders similar to the following will be presented to the World Health Assembly for approval. This classification (and the other parts of the International Classification of Diseases) will be considered by professional groups and government agencies throughout the world. It is scheduled ...
DSM-II
"This second edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-II) reflects the growth of the concept that the people of all nations live in one world. With the increasing success of the World Health Organization in promoting its uniform International Classification of Diseases, already used in many countries, the time came for psychiatrists of the United States to collaborate in preparing and using the new Eighth Revision of that classification (ICD-8) as approved by the WHO in 1966, to become effective in 1968. The rapid integration of psychiatry with the rest of medicine also helped create a need to have psychiatric nomenclature and classifications closely integrated with those of other medical practitioners. In the United States such classification has for some years followed closely the International Classification of Diseases."--Foreword.
Mental Disorders
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
American Psychiatric Association The original DSM TM.
The Making of DSM-III
This book chronicles how American psychiatry went from its psychoanalytic heyday in the 1940s and '50s, through the virulent anti-psychiatry of the 1960s and '70s, into the late 20th-century descriptive, criteria-grounded model of mental disorders.
