228 | Psychology's Checkered Bible

Did you know the first attempt to catalog mental health diversity occurred as part of the US Census? Although people had been imprisoning people for "mental health" issues for a century beforehand, the first attempts to categorize neuro-diverse individuals did not begin until the mid 1800s. Once the DSM was established it went through several iterations and conceptual and technological shifts. Learn all about our weird plot-less book!<br /><br />Links:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/history-of-the-dsm" rel="noopener">https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/history-of-the-dsm</a> (A brief but relatively comprehensive history of the DSM, omitting any specific diagnoses, also written in reverse chronological order)<br /><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/UiY6wr--0dE" rel="noopener">https://youtu.be/UiY6wr--0dE</a> (Crash Course video on the history of DSM; how the US was a supervillain about mental health in the beginning)<br /><br /><a href="https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/mental-disorders/dsm-diagnostic-and-statistical-manual-mental-disorders.htm" rel="noopener">https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/mental-disorders/dsm-diagnostic-and-statistical-manual-mental-disorders.htm</a> (What the DSM is and how it came to be)<br /><br /><a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/diseases/early.html" rel="noopener">https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/diseases/early.html</a> (Timeline of mental hospitals in the US)<br /><br /><a href="https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ps.53.3.288" rel="noopener">https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ps.53.3.288</a> (Objectives of DSM revisions)<br /><br />Kessler, R. C., Chiu, W. T., Demler, O., Merikangas, K. R., & Walters, E. E. (2005). Prevalence, severity, and comorbidity of 12-month DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Archives of general psychiatry, 62(6), 617–627. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.62.6.617" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1001/archp