110: A Brief History of Psychiatric Diagnosis, Part II

The Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is Born

When we left off in the early 20th century in the last issue of HIAS, A Brief History of Psychiatric Diagnosis, Part I, a few themes had emerged:

1. Late 19th-century German psychiatry established the biological model of mental illness.

2. Early 20th-century Euro-American Social Darwinists used the concept of natural selection and inferior biology to justify …