How to Be a Pervert: A Modest Philosophical Critique of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
This paper is divided into three parts. I begin with a short history of the way American psychiatrists have defined mental disorder in general, and paraphilias (sexual perversions) in particular, from the 1950s to 2013. I look at how the different editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of...
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Universidad de los Andes
2012-08-01
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| Series: | Revista de Estudios Sociales |
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| Online Access: | http://res.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/788/index.php?id=788 |