| LC control no. | n 81094045 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Spitzer, Robert L. |
| Birth date | 1932-05-22 |
| Death date | 2015-12-25 |
| Place of birth | White Plains (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Seattle (Wash.) |
| Field of activity | Mental illness--Classification Mental illness--Diagnosis |
| Affiliation | Columbia University |
| Profession or occupation | Psychiatrists College teachers |
| Found in | American Psychopathological Association. Evaluation of psychological therapies, c1975. Psychopathology, a case book, c1983: CIP t.p. (Robert L. Spitzer) frwd. (Robert Spitzer) International perspectives on DSM-III, Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, third edition: CIP t.p. (Robert L. Spitzer, M.D.) CIP data sheet (b. 5/22/32) BL auth. file, 29 Apr. 2003 (hdg.: Spitzer, Robert L. (Robert Leopold)) Information from 678 converted Dec. 12, 2014 (M.D., New York) New York times WWW site, viewed Dec. 28, 2015 (in obituary published Dec. 26: Dr. Robert L. Spitzer; b. Robert Leopold Spitzer, May 22, 1932, White Plains; d. Friday [Dec. 25, 2015], Seattle, aged 83; gave psychiatry its first set of rigorous standards to describe mental disorders, providing a framework for diagnosis, research, and legal judgments, as well as a lingua franca for the endless social debate over where to draw the line between normal and abnormal behavior) |
| Associated language | eng |
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