A study on the global impact of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) on modern psychiatry and its historical trajectory

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25350390
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology/History of science and technology
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: Kuroki Toshihide 九州大学, 人間・環境学研究科(研究院), 教授 (60215093)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: DSM / dimension / category / utility / validity / psychometrics / psychiatric disorder / APA

Outline of Final Research Achievements

DSM-III is the diagnostic and nosological system of psychiatric disorders issued in 1980 and provoked the revolution of modern psychiatry in the 20th century. The aim of this study is to elucidate the global impact of DSM on medical and life science, medical education and mental health care service for the past three decades. Investigations with literature reviews and interviews with leaders who played the major role in psychiatric education in Japan in the 1980’s to 90’s examined the following points: (1) a significant effect of advances in psychometrics in the mid-20th century on the development of DSM-IIII, (2) the way of acceptance by Japanese psychiatrists of the concept of individual DSM diagnosis criteria, (3) the organization of chapter structure of DSM-5 according to two axes, a lifespan developmental model and a bifactor model, (4) recent debates on utility and validity of psychiatric diagnosis, and (5)globalization of DSM and cynicism to modern psychiatry

Free Research Field

臨床精神医学