Download or read book Citadel Values II written by Robert E. Freer and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was first published in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition embodied a radical new method for identifying psychiatric illness. Kirk and Kutchins challenge the general understanding about the research data and the process that led to the peer acceptance of DSM-III. Their original and controversial reconstruction of that moment concentrates on how a small group of researchers interpreted their findings about psychiatric reliability to promote their beliefs about mental illness and to challenge the then-dominant Freudian paradigm. Book jacket.