The Performance Materials cluster comprises the business groups DSM Engineering Plastics, DSM Dyneema and DSM Resins.

DSM Resins is also the world's largest manufacturer of fiber optic coatings.

DSM Engineering Plastics manufactures polyamides, polyesters and extrudable adhesive resins.

And, on December 30, 1995, InterSystems acquired the DSM product line from DEC. InterSystems consolidated these products into a single product line, branding them, on several hardware platforms, as OpenM.

The two companies nevertheless continued their close alliance, with Chrysler supplying some parts for engines and transmissions for DSM, and Mitsubishi marketing Chrysler products overseas and supplying engines for Chrysler minivans and cars.

In 2003, DSM acquired the nutritional products business ( including vitamins ) of Roche.

In June 2012 DSM finalized the acquisition of Kensey Nash, a US based biomedical company, primarily focused on regenerative medicine and the following month finalized the acquisition of Ocean Nutrition Canada, the leading global provider of fish-oil derived nutritional products to the dietary supplement and food and beverage markets.

The latter criteria are typically used in Europe and other regions while the DSM criteria are used in the USA and other regions, as well as prevailing in research studies.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ), the widely used psychiatric manual that defines all mental disorders, uses the term general medical condition to refer to all diseases, illnesses, and injuries except for mental disorders.

The DSM can be used clinically in this way, and also to categorize patients using diagnostic criteria for research purposes.

Although treated separately by some, the commonly used categorical schemes include them as mental disorders, albeit on a separate " axis II " in the case of the DSM.

The American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ) has eliminated the category of " neurosis ", reflecting a decision by the editors to provide descriptions of behavior as opposed to hidden psychological mechanisms as diagnostic criteria, and, according to The American Heritage Medical Dictionary, it is " no longer used in psychiatric diagnosis ".

The DSM codifies psychiatric conditions and is used worldwide as a key guide for diagnosing disorders.

The psychiatric handbook, the DSM ( see below ), used to call this sexual disorder by the name frottage until the second edition ( DSM II ).

However, this term is no longer used in the United States to refer to the sexual disorder, which is now called frotteurism, as it is in the current fourth edition ( DSM IV ).

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fourth edition, DSM IV-TR, a widely used manual for diagnosing mental disorders, defines narcissistic personality disorder ( in Axis II Cluster B ) as:

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ) of the American Psychiatric Association ( APA ) includes an entry called Sexual Disorder Not Otherwise Specified ( Sexual Disorder NOS ) to apply to, among other conditions, “ distress about a pattern of repeated sexual relationships involving a succession of lovers who are experienced by the individual only as things to be used .” A proposal to add Hypersexual Disorder to the appendix ( but not the main list of official diagnoses ) of the DSM is currently under consideration by the APA.

Orthorexia nervosa ( also known as orthorexia ) is not mentioned in the DSM, but was first used by Steven Bratman to characterize people who develop an obsession with avoiding foods perceived to be unhealthy.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fourth edition, ( DSM IV-TR = 301. 4 ), a widely used manual for diagnosing mental disorders, defines obsessive – compulsive personality disorder ( in Axis II Cluster C ) as:

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fourth edition, DSM IV-TR, a widely used manual for diagnosing mental disorders, defines dependent personality disorder as a pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of that leads to submissive and clinging behavior and fears of separation, present in a wide variety of contexts and present by early adulthood and having at least five of the following ( in Axis II Cluster C ) as:

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fourth edition ( DSM IV-TR ), a frequent and widely used guide for the diagnosis of mental disorders, the following symptoms and characteristics are the diagnostic criteria for kleptomania:

Modern diagnostic systems used in psychiatry ( such as the DSM ) maintain this categorical view.

The term is used in both the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems ( ICD-10 ) and in the DSM-IV-TR, the revised fourth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ).

A 2002 study of children in residential nurseries in Bucharest, in which the DAI was used, challenged the current DSM and ICD conceptualizations of disordered attachment and showed that inhibited and disinhibited disorders could coexist in the same child.

There are two studies on the incidence of RAD relating to high risk and maltreated children in the U. S. Both used ICD, DSM and the DAI.

The term is frequently used both as an alternative to reactive attachment disorder and in discussions about different proposed classifications for disorders of attachment beyond the limitations of the ICD and DSM classifications.

It is also used within the field of attachment therapy, as is the term reactive attachment disorder, to describe a range of problematic behaviors not within the ICD or DSM criteria or not related directly to attachment styles or difficulties at all.

Greenspan recently orchestrated and edited the writing of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual ( PDM ), a new manual intended to supplement the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ( DSM ) currently used to diagnose psychological disorders.

Consequently, in contrast to DSM languages, UML is used for a wide variety of purposes across a broad range of domains.

Two of the main reasons for objecting to the inclusion of dermatillomania in the DSM-V are: ( 1 ) that dermatillomania may just be a symptom of a different underlying disorder, e. g., OCD or BDD, and ( 2 ) that dermatillomania is merely a bad habit and that by allowing this disorder to obtain its own separate category it would force the DSM to include a wide array of bad habits as separate syndromes, e. g., nail biting and nose-picking.

While a DSM may be useful for landscape modeling, city modeling and visualization applications, a DTM is often required for flood or drainage modeling, land-use studies, geological applications, and much more.

UHMWPE fibers, commercialized in the late 1970s by the Dutch chemicals company DSM, are widely used in ballistic protection, defense applications, and increasingly in medical devices as well.

Medical-grade fibers for surgical applications are produced by DSM under the " Dyneema Purity " trade name.

Critics, such as psychiatrist Niall McLaren, argue that the DSM lacks validity because it has no relation to an agreed scientific model of mental disorder and therefore the decisions taken about its categories ( or even the question of categories versus dimensions ) were not scientific ones ; and that it lacks reliability partly because different diagnoses share many criteria, and what appear to be different criteria are often just rewordings of the same idea, meaning that the decision to allocate one diagnosis or another to a patient is to some extent a matter of personal prejudice.

Another example is a strong operationalist viewpoint, which contends that reliance on operational definitions, as purported by the DSM, necessitates that intuitive concepts such as depression be replaced by specific measurable concepts before they are scientifically meaningful.

There are significant differences, however, such as the ICD including personality disorders in the same way as other mental disorders, while the DSM lists them on a separate ' axis '.

The DSM incorporates such conditions under the umbrella category of substance use disorders, which includes substance dependence and substance abuse.

Popularist labels such as psychopath ( or sociopath ) do not appear in the DSM or ICD but are linked by some to these diagnoses.

There is scientific and political controversy regarding the continued inclusion of sex-related diagnoses such as the paraphilias in the DSM.

Researcher Anil Aggrawal writes that the 1952 first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ) specified " the type of the pathological behavior, such as homosexuality, transvestism, pedophilia, fetishism, and sexual sadism, including rape, sexual assault, mutilation ).

A majority of those diagnosed with DID meet the criteria for DSM axis II personality disorders such as borderline personality disorder ; a significant minority meet the criteria for avoidant personality disorder and other personality disorders.

They assert that DID cannot be accurately diagnosed because of vague and unclear diagnostic criteria in the DSM and undefined concepts such as " personality state " and " identities ", and question the evidence for childhood abuse beyond self-reports, the lack of definition of what would indicate a threshold of abuse sufficient to induce DID and the extremely small number of cases of children diagnosed with DID despite an average age of appearance of the first alter of three years.

The APA wrote in the second edition of the DSM: " In the dissociative type, alterations may occur in the patient's state of consciousness or in his identity, to produce such symptoms as amnesia, somnambulism, fugue, and multiple personality.

Some, such as Johns Hopkins psychologist John Gartner, argue that hypomania is better understood as a stable non-pathological temperament rather than an episode of mental illness The DSM however clearly defines hypomania as an aberrant state, not a stable trait.

As a result of such accumulated research, professionals in medicine, mental health, and the behavioral and social sciences, opposing the classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder, claimed the conclusion that it was inaccurate, and that the DSM classification reflected untested assumptions that were based on once-prevalent social norms and clinical impressions from unrepresentative samples which consisted of patients seeking therapy and individuals whose conduct brought them into the criminal justice system.

DSM Nutritional Products is the world's largest supplier of nutritional ingredients, such as vitamins, carotenoids ( antioxidants and pigments ), enzymes, other biochemicals and fine chemicals and premixes for humans and animals.

DSM Sinochem Pharmaceuticals produces penicillin G and penicillin intermediates ( 6-APA and 7-ADCA ), active pharmaceutical ingredients such as semisynthetic penicillins and semi-synthetic cefalosporins ( beta-lactams ) and other active pharmaceutical ingredients such as Nystatin and Atorvastatin.

Energy demand management, also known as demand side management ( DSM ), is the modification of consumer demand for energy through various methods such as financial incentives and education.

Domain-specific modeling ( DSM ) is a software engineering methodology for designing and developing systems, such as computer software.

For example, a DSM language for mobile phones could allow users to specify high-level abstractions for the user interface, as well as lower-level abstractions for storing data such as phone numbers or settings.

Using a DSM environment can significantly lower the cost of obtaining tool support for a DSM language, since a well-designed DSM environment will automate the creation of program parts that are costly to build from scratch, such as domain-specific editors, browsers and components.

Most existing DSM takes place with DSM environments, either commercial such as MetaEdit + or Actifsource, open source such as GEMS, or academic such as GME.