Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1. Diagnosing Mental Illness
Chapter 2. The DSM-I and II
Chapter 3. The Path to a Diagnostic Revolution
Chapter 4. The DSM-III
Chapter 5. The DSM-III-R and DSM-IV
Chapter 6. The DSM-5's Failed Revolution
Chapter 7. The DSM as a Social Creation
Notes
References
Index

Promotional Information

The first comprehensive history of "psychiatry's bible"—the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

About the Author

Allan V. Horwitz is a Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Rutgers University. He is the author or coauthor of eleven books, including Anxiety: A Short History, PTSD: A Short History, and Creating Mental Illness.

Reviews

His close look at the DSM is a meticulous blow-by-blow, tracking its evolution in the context of shifting psychiatric care, expanding disease taxonomy, growing pharmaceutical influence, emerging social movements, and a diverse array of personalities and identities (trans, queer) classified as disorders.
—Mad in America

Horowitz tells this sorry tale with skill and panache... It is the best synthetic account of this territory anyone has produced to date.
—Los Angeles Review of Books

Horwitz retains a scrupulous objectivity; but nonetheless, the tale he tells is of one of the most resounding and damaging follies of modern scientism. 
—Will Self, Spectator

Allan Horwitz is to be congratulated on a fine book that deserves to be read by everyone concerned about the state of psychiatry.
—Robert M Kaplan, University of Western Sydney, Australia, Sushruta Health Policy & Opinions

Horwitz's [DSM] provides a clear and detailed history of the DSM that is both forward and backward looking, itself a book that leaves a lasting impression.
—Social History of Medicine