Although the APA was closely involved in the next significant revision of the mental disorder section of the ICD ( version 8 in 1968 ), it decided to go ahead with a revision of the DSM.

In 1974, the decision to create a new revision of the DSM was made, and Robert Spitzer was selected as chairman of the task force.

The initial impetus was to make the DSM nomenclature consistent with the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems ( ICD ), published by the World Health Organization.

William Glasser, however, refers to the DSM as " phony diagnostic categories ", arguing that " it was developed to help psychiatrists – to help them make money ".

The language of the DSM was described as " simultaneously precise and vague " in order to provide an aura of scientific objectivity yet not limit psychiatrists in a semantic or financial sense, and the manual itself compared to " a militia's Web page, insofar as it constitutes an alternative reality under siege " by critics.

DSM-11 was superseded by VAX / DSM for the VAX / VMS platform, and that was ported to the Alpha in two variants: DSM for OpenVMS, and as DSM for Ultrix.

( On the other hand, a similar position was claimed to justify the inclusion of " Sexual orientation disturbance ( Homosexuality )" in DSM II and " Ego-dystonic homosexuality " in DSM III, before disorders related to homosexuality were finally dropped completely.

" Originally coded as 000-x63, homosexuality was the top of the classification list ( Code 302. 0 ) until the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from the DSM in 1973.

Linguist A. C. Hinderliter argued that " Including some sexual interests — but not others — in the DSM creates a fundamental asymmetry and communicates a negative value judgment against the sexual interests included ," and leaves the paraphilias in a situation similar to ego-dystonic homosexuality, which was removed from the DSM because it did not meet the DSM's definition of mental disorder.

" Interpersonality amnesia " was removed as a diagnostic feature from the DSM III in 1987, which may have contributed to the increasing frequency of the diagnosis.

Surveys of the attitudes of Canadian and American psychiatrists ' attitudes towards dissociative disorders completed in 1999 and 2001 found considerable skepticism and disagreement regarding the research base of dissociative disorders in general and DID in specific, as well as whether the inclusion DID in the DSM was appropriate.

Oftentimes people refer to ADHD-PI as " Attention deficit disorder " ( ADD ), however, the term was revised in the 1994 version of the DSM.

The final terminology in use by the DSM today was decided by the DSM-IV Axis II Work Group of the American Psychiatric Association.

* Robert Spitzer was a key figure in the development of later editions of the DSM.

Though the psychiatric establishment once medicalized same-sex desire, homosexuality was later removed in 1974 as a mental disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ) because it wasn't supported by sound scientific evidence and didn't meet the criteria for a mental disorder.

Diamond-Star Motors ( DSM )— from the parent companies ' logos: three diamonds ( Mitsubishi ) and a pentastar ( Chrysler )— was incorporated in October 1985, and in April 1986 ground was broken on a 1. 9 million square-foot ( 177, 000 m² ) production facility.

Since NCSF had already established the DSM project as a major area of focus, it made sense to also add the Consent Counts project as a major focus.

Pursuing this strategy, Wilkinson earned the Distinguished Service Medal ( DSM ) for commanding the amphibious forces in the assaults on New Georgia, Vella Lavella, and the Treasury Islands ; and established a key position on the west coast of Bougainville.

The State mining company DSM ( privatised in 1989 ) however remained active in Geleen, now purely as a chemicals producer.

In 1971 the company of Fergason ILIXCO ( now LXD Incorporated ) produced the first LCDs based on the TN-effect, which soon superseded the poor-quality DSM types due to improvements of lower operating voltages and lower power consumption.

Hansen, or produced by Kluyveromyces lactis and commercialized under the trademark MAXIREN ® by the Dutch company DSM.

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DSM Headquarters, Heerlen, the Netherlands 2011DSM ( in full Koninklijke DSM N. V., or Royal DSM N. V .) is a multinational life sciences and materials sciences-based company.

By the time the last mine closed ( in 1973 ), DSM had transformed into a chemical company.

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.

On 8 August 2012 DSM announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Tortuga Companhia Zootécnica Agrária ( Tortuga ), a privately held Brazilian company manufacturing nutritional supplements with a focus on pasture raised beef and dairy cattle.

Another problem of DSM is privacy: The consumers have to provide some information about their usage of electricity to their electricity company.

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.

`` He recommended both of them for the DSM and the Detroit fellow for the Purple Heart, too, for a combat-inflicted wound.

In psychology and psychiatry, the DSM is the most common global standard, while in medicine, the standard is ICD.

To be diagnosed with mania according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ), a person must experience this state of elevated or irritable mood, as well as other symptoms, for at least one week, less if hospitalization is required.

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 definition of rapid cycling most frequently cited in the literature ( including the DSM ) is that of Dunner and Fieve: at least four major depressive, manic, hypomanic or mixed episodes are required to have occurred during a 12-month period.

Most of the world's synthetic supply of carotene comes from a manufacturing complex located in Freeport, Texas and owned by DSM.

In Spain Vitatene produces natural β-carotene from fungus Blakeslea trispora, as does DSM but at much lower amount when compared to its synthetic β-carotene operation.

The LCDs were an early form using the Dynamic Scattering Mode DSM with the numbers appearing as bright against a dark background.

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 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ) published by the American Psychiatric Association provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders.

The DSM has attracted praise for standardizing psychiatric diagnostic categories and criteria.

Some critics argue that the DSM represents an unscientific system that enshrines the opinions of a few powerful psychiatrists.

The publication of the DSM, with tightly guarded copyrights, now makes APA over $ 5 million a year, historically adding up to over $ 100 million.

Many mental health professionals use the manual to determine and help communicate a patient's diagnosis after an evaluation ; hospitals, clinics, and insurance companies in the US also generally require a ' five axis ' DSM diagnosis of all the patients treated.

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

Studies done on specific disorders often recruit patients whose symptoms match the criteria listed in the DSM for that disorder.

The current version of the DSM characterizes a mental disorder as " a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual is associated with present distress ... or disability ... or with a significant increased risk of suffering.

Spitzer argued that " mental disorders are a subset of medical disorders " but the task force decided on the DSM statement: " Each of the mental disorders is conceptualized as a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome.

A controversy emerged regarding deletion of the concept of neurosis, a mainstream of psychoanalytic theory and therapy but seen as vague and unscientific by the DSM task force.

The DSM advises laypersons should consult the DSM only to obtain information, not to make diagnoses, and people who may have a mental disorder should be referred to psychological counseling or treatment.

Further, a shared diagnosis or label may have different causes or require different treatments ; for this reason the DSM contains no information regarding treatment or cause.