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The DSM is a handy and comprehensive publication one can turn to when searching for indicators of behaviors consistent with mental disorders. As the title suggests, diagnosis of such disorders can be inferred, however, only a trained and experienced professional should render a clinical diagnosis or recommend treatment. My reason for purchasing the text was to use in my current and future research projects. Below is a brief explanation/overview of the text extracted from Wikipedia, which while it should not be considered a 'peer reviewed/scholarly source' is an excellent resource to use to "point" researchers to 'peer reviewed/scholarly sources'. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published by the American Psychiatric Association and provides diagnostic criteria for mental disorders. It is used in the United States and in varying degrees around the world, by clinicians, researchers, psychiatric drug regulation agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and policy makers. The DSM has attracted controversy and criticism as well as praise. There have been five revisions since it was first published in 1952, gradually including more disorders, though some have been removed and are no longer considered to be mental disorders. It initially evolved out of systems for collecting census and psychiatric hospital statistics, and from a manual developed by the US Army. The last major revision was the DSM-IV published in 1994, although a "text revision" was produced in 2000. The DSM-V is currently in consultation, planning and preparation, due for publication in May 2012.[1] An early draft will be released for comment in 2009. [2] The mental disorders section of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) is another commonly-used guide, used more often in some parts of the world. The coding system used in the DSM-IV is designed to correspond with the codes used in the ICD, although not all codes may match at all times because the two publications are not revised synchronously (Wikipedia, 2009). Reference: Wikipedia (2009). [www.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders]Read full review
What can you say about a book that is mandatory for all of us practicing and/or researching psychology? . . . It's kinda like reviewing the bible, except that this is a much easier read with generally larger print and is a bit more current. Yet unlike the bible, this book evolves when the psych community has substantial research and/or cultural reasons to update it. . . . . "TR" stands for "Text Revision." Overall, this book is very similar to the cheaper DSM-IV. Only some typos and coding were corrected in addition to adding some more current studies. For this reason, i can only give the DSM-IV-TR (2000), a 4/5 for the higher cost vs utility when compared to the DSM-IV (1994). The next version, DSM-V, is due out sometime in 2012. . . . [TY for reading, Valence17/ UsedPsychTests]
Although psychiatry is definitely a "soft science", it is nice to know the criteria for diagnosis (even with the MANY overlaps). Yes, this is not the current DSM-V, but this version will still have its uses.
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I'm partial to the fourth edition and use it daily to help the people seeking to understand their problems
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if your in the field you need this book,,,,can;t wait for next years new DSM V to come out, except paying that horrific price,,,oh well,,,,hopefully it will be good for another 10yrs before they change their mind and add more disorders and delete those that are now normal behaviors,,,,how scary how the human brain thinks and functions..good luck to all that use and need this book in class or in the field.
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