The first draft of the DSM-III was prepared within a year.

Faced with enormous political opposition, so the DSM-III was in serious danger of not being approved by the APA Board of Trustees unless " neurosis " was included in some capacity, a political compromise reinserted the term in parentheses after the word " disorder " in some cases.

Finally published in 1980, the DSM-III was 494 pages and listed 265 diagnostic categories.

In 1987 the DSM-III-R was published as a revision of DSM-III, under the direction of Spitzer.

Robert Spitzer, a lead architect of the DSM-III, has held the opinion that the addition of cultural formulations was an attempt to placate cultural critics, and that they lack any scientific motivation or support.

Before the introduction of the term paraphilia in the DSM-III ( 1980 ), the term sexual deviation was used to refer to paraphilias in the first two editions of the manual.

The term " paraphilia " was introduced in the DSM-III ( 1980 ) as a subset of the new category of " psychosexual disorders ".

Some people feel that the deletion of homosexuality as a mental disorder from the DSM-III and the ensuing creation of the GID diagnosis was merely sleight of hand by psychiatrists, who changed the focus of the diagnosis from the deviant desire ( of the same sex ) to the subversive identity ( or the belief / desire for membership of the opposite sex / gender ).

" However, Kenneth Zucker and Robert Spitzer argue that GID was included in the DSM-III ( 7 years after homosexuality was removed from the DSM-II ) because it " met the generally accepted criteria used by the framers of DSM-III for inclusion ".

DSM-III was published in 1980, after a larger process involving some 600 clinicians.

A category of " sexual orientation disturbance " was introduced in its place in 1974, and then replaced in the 1980 DSM-III with Ego-dystonic sexual orientation.

Shyness as a psychiatric illness made its debut as " social phobia " in DSM-III in 1980, but was then described as rare.

It was first included in the DSM-III under the name Inhibited Sexual Desire Disorder, but the name was changed in the DSM-III-R.

In the revision of the DSM-III, published in 1987 ( DSM-III-R ), ISD was subdivided into two categories: Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder and Sexual Aversion Disorder ( SAD ).

Although EDNOS ( formerly called “ atypical eating disorder ”) was originally introduced in DSM-III to capture unusual cases, it is now the most commonly diagnosed eating disorder.

The concept was coined by Dr Robert Spitzer ( an editor of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-III )) as a replacement for the term " depressive personality " in the late 1970s.

Thus, DSM-III was a specific set of definitions for mental illnesses, and entities more suited to diagnostic psychiatry, but which annexed response proportionality as a classification factor.

In the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-III ), SDD was opposed to the pervasive developmental disorders ( PDD ).

SCT was originally discovered in the 1980s when the DSM-III first began subtyping ADHD as attention deficit disorder ( ADD ) with or without hyperactivity.

" Except for the removal of homosexuality from the DSM-III onwards, this definition provided a general standard that has guided specific definitions of paraphilias in subsequent DSM editions, up to DSM-IV-TR.

12. 51 % of people with class 3 obesity, which is classified as a BMI greater or equal to 40, however, were found to suffer from DIS / DSM-III major depression.

Operational definitions are the foundation of the diagnostic nomenclature of mental disorders ( classification of mental disorders ) from the DSM-III onward.

Standardized criteria were developed to distinguish BPD from affective disorders and other Axis I disorders, and BPD became a personality disorder diagnosis in 1980 with the publication of DSM-III.

As DSM-III chief architect Robert Spitzer and DSM-IV editor Michael First outlined in 2005, " little progress has been made toward understanding the pathophysiological processes and etiology of mental disorders.

DSM-III placed schizoaffective disorder in " Psychotic Disorders Not Otherwise Specified " before being formally recognized in DSM-III-R. DSM-III-R included its own diagnostic criteria as well as the subtypes, bipolar and depressive.

Reactive attachment disorder first made its appearance in standard nosologies of psychological disorders in DSM-III, 1980, following an accumulation of evidence on institutionalized children.

However, it has been speculated that DSM-IV still does not escape the problems DSM-III faced, where psychiatric diagnoses still include symptoms of expectable responses to stressful circumstances to be signs of disorders, along with symptoms that are individual dysfunctions.

The example set by DSM-III, for principally symptom-based disorder classification, has been integrated as the norm of mental diagnostic practice.

The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

In his mood, it was the best way to handle him ; ;

So long as Sally's pa was coming out best on the haggle, Dan didn't feel the need of putting in his two-bits' worth.

Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.

Maybe he was only doing the best he knew how, like any of us.

The RAF was Britain's weapon of attrition, and flying a fighter plane was the way her sons could serve her best at this point in the war.

It was best to die fighting the marines.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

From being a hated tyrant and madman he was now the symbol of all that was noblest and best in the history of Sweden.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

She was exposing herself to temptation which it is best to avoid where it can consistently be done.

The confused rambling of guerrilla warfare, such as most of Garibaldi's campaigns were, was brought to life by Trevelyan's pen in some of the best passages in the books.

He was a learned and brilliant man, one of the best jurists in Europe and with flashes of penetrating insight, and yet in his dealings with other people, particularly when he tried to be ingratiating, he was capable of an abysmal stupidity that can have come only from a complete incomprehension of human nature and human motives.

He felt as I felt about this best of all my books, that it was `` really tops ''.

It was, the brief writers decided, `` man's best hope for a peaceful and law abiding world ''.

Investors breathed more freely when it was learned that this acrobatic dancer had turned magician and was only doing a best seller book to make some dough.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

It was the opinion of some of us that these must be part of the Committeemen who had been in the Battle of the North Bridge, which entitled them to a sort of veteran status, and we felt that if they employed this tactic, it was likely enough the best one.