Mandel Cohen and the origins of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,Third Edition: DSM-III

DSM-III (Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association Press, 1980).

See Guze, S. (2000). The neo-Kraepelinian revolution. In D. Healy , The Psychopharmacologists, Vol. 3 (London: Arnold), 395-414.

Cohen M.E. , Cassidy, W.L. , Flanagan, N.B. and Spellman, M. (1937). Clinical observations in manic-depressive disease - a quantitative study of 100 manic-depressive patients and 50 medically sick controls. Journal of the American Medical Association, 164, 1535-46.

Cohen, M.E. and Thomson, K.J. (1936). Studies on circulation in pregnancy: velocity of blood flow and related aspects of circulation in normal pregnant women . Journal of Clinical Investigation, 15, 607-25.

Cohen, M.E. , Cobb, S. and Ney, J. (1938). Anticonvulsant action of vital dyes. Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry, 40, 1156-77.

Cohen, M.E. (1940). Experimental production during re-breathing of sighing respiration and symptoms resembling those in anxiety attacks in patients with anxiety neurosis. Proceedings of the Society of Clinical Investigation. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 19, 789.

Cohen, M.E. , White, P.D. , Cobb, S. , Chapman, W.P. and Badal, D.W. (1944). Observations on neurocirculatory asthenia. Transactions of the American Physician's Society, 58, 129-37; Cohen, M.E. et al. (1946). A study of neurocirculatory asthenia, anxiety neurosis, effort syndrome (Final report to the Committee of Medical Research, Office of Scientific Research and Development under Contract OEM-cmr-157) ; Cohen, M.E. , Johnson, R.E. and White, P.D. (1948). Neurocirculatory asthenia, anxiety neurosis, or the effort syndrome. Archives of Internal Medicine, 81, 260-81; Cohen, M.E. and White, P.D. (1951). Life situations, emotions, and neurocirculatory asthenia (anxiety neurosis, neuroasthenia, effort syndrome). Psychosomatic Medicine , 13, 335-57.

Cohen, M.E. , Wheeler, E.O. , White, P.D. and Reed, E.W. (1959). Neurocirculatory asthenia (anxiety neurosis, effort syndrome, neurasthenia): a twenty-year follow-up study of 173 patients. Journal of the American Medical Association, 142, 878-88.

9. Cohen et al. (1937); see Note 3.

Cohen, M.E. , Robins, E. and Purtell, J.J. (1952). 'Hysteria' in men. A study of 38 patients so diagnosed and 194 control subjects. New England Journal of Medicine, 246, 677-85; Cohen, M.E. , Robins, E. , Purtell, J.J. , Altmann, M. and Reid, D.E. (1953). Excessive surgery in hysteria. Study of surgical procedures in 50 women with hysteria and 190 controls. Journal of the American Medical Association, 151, 977-86.

Cohen, M.E. and Cobb, S. (1940). Anticonvulsive action of disodium 4-sulfamide-phenyl-3-azo-7-acetylamino-l-hydroxy-naphthalene 3, 6 disulfonate (neoprontosil). Transactions of the American Neurological Association, 66, 199-202.

Another account of this meeting and its significance can be found in: Sheehan, D. (2000). Angles on panic. In D. Healy , The Psychopharmacologists , Vol. 3 (London: Arnold), 479-504.

Klerman, G.L. (1987). Psychiatric research at the MGH. In T. P. Hackett , A. Weisman and A. Kucharsky (eds), Psychiatry in a General Hospital: The First Fifty Years (Littleton, MA: PSG Publishing Co.), 81-92. The printed material in this volume contains very little about Mandel Cohen, largely on page 88, but evidence of Cohen's rehabilitation is there in the form of a photograph.

Spitzer and Cohen never met. See Spitzer, R. (2000). A manual for diagnosis and statistics. In D. Healy , The Psychopharmacologists, Vol. 3 (London: Arnold), 415-30.

On the role of operational criteria for hysteria and DSM-III, see Guze, S. (2000). The neo-Kraepelinian revolution. In D. Healy , The Psychopharmacologists, Vol. 3 (London: Arnold), 395-414.

Cohen, M.E. and White, J.C. (1942). Review of Psychosurgery by W. Freeman and J. W. Watts. Surgery, 12, 161-2.

Cohen, M.E. , Ballantine, H.T. , Talbert, O.R. and Currens, J.H. (1954). Studies of sensation, circulation and respiration after bilateral glossopharyngeal rhizotomy. Transactions of the American Neurological Association, p. 69.

Cohen, M.E. , Herbertson, W.M. and Talbert, O.R. (1959). Respiratory apraxia and anosognosia. Observations on lack of voluntary control of breathing and unawareness of breathing abnormality in 57 patients with Cheyne-Stokes respiration. Transactions of the American Neurological Association, pp. 176-9.