DSM

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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) published by the American Psychiatric Association provides an organized standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders, and is intended for common, as well as clinical use. The DSM is used in the United States as the diagnostic guide to modern perceptions of mental illness. It is used or relied heavily upon by clinicians, physicians, researchers, psychiatric drug regulation agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and public policy makers.

The current version is the DSM-IV-TR, updated as of 2001. The current DSM is organized into a five-part axial system. The first axis incorporates 'clinical disorders. The second axis covers personality disorders and intellectual disabilities. The remaining axes cover medical, psychosocial, environmental, and childhood factors functionally necessary to provide diagnostic criteria for accurate healthcare assessments. The APA has stated that they intend to release an updated version of the DSM in May of 2013, which will include a number of sweeping changes to the categorization of disorders.

Editions of the DSM

1918: Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane

The Committee on Statistics from, what is now known as, the American Psychiatric Association (APA), together with the National Commission on Mental Hygiene, developed a new guide for mental hospitals which included twenty-two individual diagnoses. They are as follows:

  • Traumatic Psychoses
  • Senile Psychoses (Modern Dementia)
  • Psychoses with Cerebral Arteriosclerosis
  • General Paralysis
  • Psychoses with Cerebral Syphilis
  • Psychoses with Huntington's Chorea
  • Psychoses with brain tumor
  • Psychoses with other brain or nervous disease
  • Alcohol Psychoses
  • Psychoses due to drugs or other exogenous toxins
  • Psychoses with pellagra
  • Psychoses with somatic diseases
  • Manic Depressive Psychoses (Modern Bipolar Disorder)
  • Involution Melancholia (Related to, but not identical with Major Depressive Disorder)
  • Dementia Praecox
  • Paranoia or Paranoic Conditions
  • Epileptic Psychoses
  • Psychoneuroses and Neuroses
  • Psychoses with constitutional psychopathic inferiority (Modern Borderline Personality Disorder)
  • Psychoses with mental deficiency
  • Undiagnosed Psychoses
  • Not Insane

1952: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual- I

1968: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual- II

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