Part 1

What is the most recent version of the DSM?

The current version of the DSM, called the DSM-IV-TR, was published in July 2000.
This is considered to be a minor revision in that changes were, for the most part,
confined to the descriptive text that accompanied each disorder. The most recent
major revision was DSM-IV, published in 1994. In all, there have been 4 major
revisions of the DSM. The first edition of the DSM was published in 1952. Subsequent
revisions included DSM-II, (published in 1968), DSM-III (published in 1980), DSM-
III-R (published in 1987), and DSM-IV (published in 1994).

Aren't some of the diagnoses included in the DSM there for political reasons?

Decisions to include a diagnosis in the DSM are based on a careful consideration of the
research underlying the disorder. This is not to say that decisions are made without
regard to other considerations. Scientific data cannot be interpreted in a vacuum.
Sociological and other considerations must also be taken into account.

Sometimes different disorders or subtypes of disorders have the same diagnostic code. Is
there an error here?

A number of individuals have contacted us about possible clerical errors in the

diagnostic codes, namely, that certain disorders and subtypes have the same
diagnostic code.

What's so Statistical about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental

Disorders?

The word statistical in the name of the manual is a throwback to one of the original
uses of the DSMto facilitate the collection of hospital statistics in the early 1950's
and 1960's. Although psychiatric diagnoses are still an important part of record
keeping, the primary use of the DSM is diagnostic. For historical reasons, we have
kept the name DSM.

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 What is the status of the ICD-10?

ICD-10, the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases, was

published by the World Health Organization in 1993. Although DSM-IV and DSM-
IV-TR was developed with the explicit goal of ICD-10 compatibility, they include
ICD-9-CM codes since implementation of ICD-10 in the United States has been
significantly delayed.

Has the DSM-IV been translated into any other language?

DSM-IV-TR has been translated into 22 languages.

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