Book Reviews

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorder, third edition. Washington D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 1980.

Feighner JP Robins E Guze SB Woodruff RA Winokur G Muniz R. Diagnostic criteria for use in psychiatric research. Archives of General Psychiatry 1972; 26:57–63.

Williams JBW Spitzer RL. Research diagnostic criteria and DSM-III. An annotated comparison. Archives of General Psychiatry 1982; 39:1283–1289.

Rutter M Shaffer D Sturge C. A Guide to a multiaxial classification scheme for psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence. London: Institute of Psychiatry, 1975.

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorder, third editionrevised. Washington D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 1987.

Skodol AE Perry JC. Should an axis for defense mechanisms be included in DSM-IV? Comprehensive Psychiatry 1993; 34:108–119.

Kendell RE. DSM-III: a major advance in psychiatric nosology. In: Spitzer RL Williams JBW Skodol AE (eds). International Perspectives on DSM-III. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, 1983:55–68.

Roth M. The achievements and limitations of DSM-III. In: Spitzer RL Williams JBW Skodol AE (eds). International perspectives on DSM-III. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, 1983:91–105.

Stromgren E. The strengths and weaknesses of DSM-III. In: Spitzer RL Williams JBW Skodol AE (eds). International perspectives on DSM-III. Washington. D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, 1983:69–77.

Klerman GL Vaillant GE Spitzer RL Michels R. A debate on DSM-III. American Journal of Psychiatry 1984; 141:539–553.

Wilson M. DSM-III and the transformation of American psychiatry: a history. American Journal of Psychiatry 1993; 150:399–410.

Laor N Agassi J. Diagnosis: philosophical and medical perspectives. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990.

Bayer R Spitzer RL. Neurosis, psychodynamics, and the DSM-III: a history of the controversy. Archives of General Psychiatry 1985; 42:187–198.

Frances A Cooper AM. Descriptive and dynamic psychiatry: a perspective on DSM-III. American Journal of Psychiatry 1981; 138:1198–1202.

Karasu TB Skodol AE. VIth axis for DSM-III: psychodynamic formulation. American Journal of Psychiatry 1980; 137:607–610.

Spitzer RL. The diagnostic status of homosexuality in DSM-III: a reformulation of the issues. American Journal of Psychiatry 1981; 138:210–215.

Bayer R Spitzer RL. Edited correspondence on the status of homosexuality in DSM-III. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 1982; 18:32–52.

Pincus HA Frances A Davis WW First MB Widiger TA , DSM-IV and new diagnostic categories: holding the line on proliferation. American Journal of Psychiatry 1992; 149:112–117.

The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders. Clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1992.

Singh B. Review of treatment of the DSM III psychiatric disorders, 1983. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 1984; 18:294.

Ticehurst S. Review of DSM III case book. 1983. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 1984; 18: 107.

Rickarby GA. Review of DSM III training guide for diagnosis of childhood disorders, 1984. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 1984; 18:404.

Barnes GJ. Review of a DSM III casebook of differential therapeutics — a clinical guide to treatment selection, 1985. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 1987; 21:122.

Neal LA. The pitfalls of making a categorical diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder in personal injury litigation. Medicine. Science and Law 1994; 34:117–122.

Solursh LP. Review of posttraumatic stress disorder: DSM-IV and beyond, 1993. Psychiatric Services 1995; 46:88–89.

Beard GM. Neurasthenia, or nervous exhaustion. Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 1869, 3:217–221.

Pathé MT Mullen PE. The dangerousness of the DSM-III-R. Journal of Law and Medicine, 1993; 1:47–51.

MacKenney Pinfold VR (1983) 76 Criminal Appeals Reports 271.

Peisley VR (1990) 54 Australian Criminal Reports 42.

Hood v Crimes Compensation Tribunal (unreported Victorian AAT, 24 March 1994, no. 93/043543).

Williams v Crimes Compensation Tribunal (unreported Victorian AAT, 29 March 1994, no. 93/020437).

Mendelson G Mendelson D. Legal and psychiatric aspects of malingering. Journal of Law and Medicine 1993; 1:28–34.

Santy PA Endicott J Jones DR Results of a structured psychiatric interview to evaluate NASA astronaut candidates. Military Medicine 1993; 158:5–9.

Rosser SV. Is there androcentric bias in psychiatric diagnosis? Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 1992; 17:215–231.

Ritchie K. The little woman meets son of DSM-III. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 1989; 14:695–708.

Russell D. Psychiatric diagnosis and the interests of women. In: Sadler JZ Wiggins OP Schwartz MA (eds). Philosophical perspectives on psychiatric diagnostic classification. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994:246–258.