A review of american psychiatry through its diagnoses: The history and development of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 200, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1022-1030

  Fischer, Bernard A ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b MARYLAND PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; DSM; History of medicine; Psychiatry

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL DISEASE; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PSYCHIATRY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870944706     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318275cf19     Document Type: Review

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