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Pamphlet: Depression: What you need to know, National Institute of
Mental Heath. By Marilyn Sargent. Office of Scientific Information
National Institute of Mental Health
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The DSM stands
for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It is
published by the American Psychiatric Association. The latest version
is the DSM-III-R (1987). For reference, the DSM-III was published in
1980.
The first edition of this manual was published in 1952, and the
second edition in 1968. The fourth edition (DSM-IV) is currently in
press and should be available this summer. It is used by the vast
majority of psychologists and mental health professionals in the
United States of America as a diagnostic tool. Psychiatrists and
professionals outside of the U.S. will often use a diagnostic system
called ICD-9, which differs in many respects from the DSM.
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