The American Psychiatric Association has recommended sustained treatment in conjunction with AA's program, or similar community resources, for chronic alcoholics unresponsive to brief treatment.

The American Psychiatric Association and the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence recommend antipsychotics for managing acute psychotic episodes in schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, and as a longer-term maintenance treatment for reducing the likelihood of further episodes.

The most widely used criteria for diagnosing bipolar disorder are from the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the current version being DSM-IV-TR, and the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, currently the ICD-10.

The American Psychiatric Association ( APA ) guidelines note that, in general, benzodiazepines are well tolerated, and their use for the initial treatment for panic disorder is strongly supported by numerous controlled trials.

In the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association ( DSM-IV-TR ) it is not recognized as a separate disorder, but is associated with psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia ( catatonic type ), bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and other mental disorders, as well as drug abuse or overdose ( or both ).

The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines ( April 2000 ) indicated that, among psychotherapeutic approaches, cognitive behavioral therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy had the best-documented efficacy for treatment of major depressive disorder.

In particular, the term is not recognised as a specific disorder by the American Psychiatric Association in its latest categorisation of disorders, nor is it recognised by the World Health Organisation as a valid disorder.

* 1973 – The American Psychiatric Association votes 13 – 0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.

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, including DSM-IV, is a registered trademark belonging to the American Psychiatric Association ( APA ).

In 1917, a Committee on Statistics from what is now known as the American Psychiatric Association ( APA ), together with the National Commission on Mental Hygiene, developed a new guide for mental hospitals called the " Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane ", which included 22 diagnoses.

In 2005, then American Psychiatric Association President Steven Sharfstein released a statement in which he conceded that psychiatrists had " allowed the biopsychosocial model to become the bio-bio-bio model ".

In addition, the publishing of the DSM, with tightly guarded copyrights, has in itself earned over $ 100 million for the American Psychiatric Association.

The consensus, however, in position statements from the American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association and other institutions in many other countries, is that the research and clinical literature demonstrate that homosexuality is a normal and positive variation of human sexuality, and that any social exclusion or difficulties with homosexuality are a problem of society.

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Following a large donation from the Jewish German American banker James Loeb who had at one time been a patient, and promises of support from ' patrons of science ', the German Institute for Psychiatric Research was founded in 1917 in Munich.

His fundamental theories on the etiology and diagnosis of psychiatric disorders form the basis of all major diagnostic systems in use today, especially the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV and the World Health Organization's ICD system.

From 1970 activists protested the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness by the American Psychiatric Association in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and in 1974 it was replaced with a category of " sexual orientation disturbance " then " ego-dystonic homosexuality ", which was also deleted, although " gender identity disorder " remains.

This has developed alongside the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ) and the two manuals seek to use the same codes.

In 1952 homosexuality was listed as a pathological emotional disturbance in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.

There are currently two widely established systems that classify mental disorders — ICD-10 Chapter V: Mental and behavioural disorders, since 1949 part of the International Classification of Diseases produced by the WHO, and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-IV ) produced by the American Psychiatric Association ( APA ) since 1952.

A manic episode is defined in the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual as a period of seven or more days ( or any period if admission to hospital is required ) of unusually and continuously effusive and open elated or irritable mood, where the mood is not caused by drugs / medication or a medical illness ( e. g., hyperthyroidism ), and ( a ) is causing obvious difficulties at work or in social relationships and activities, or ( b ) requires admission to hospital to protect the person or others, or ( c ) the person is suffering psychosis.

" 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.

The clinical literature contains reports of many paraphilias, only some of which receive their own entries in the diagnostic taxonomies of the American Psychiatric Association or the World Health Organization.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

Work on the ASCII standard began on October 6, 1960, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association's ( ASA ) X3. 2 subcommittee.

: The American style is used by most American newspapers, publishing houses and style guides in the United States and Canada ( including the Modern Language Association's MLA Style Manual, the American Psychological Association's APA Publication Manual, the University of Chicago's The Chicago Manual of Style, the American Institute of Physics's AIP Style Manual, the American Medical Association's AMA Manual of Style, the American Political Science Association's APSA Style Manual, the Associated Press ' The AP Guide to Punctuation and the Canadian Public Works ' The Canadian Style ).

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According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, personality traits are " enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts.

The 1952 first edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-I ) classified homosexuality as a mental disorder.

In 1973, after years of criticism from gay activists and bitter dispute among psychiatrists, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality as a mental disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Schizophrenia is diagnosed based on criteria in either the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, version DSM-IV-TR, or the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, the ICD-10.

In 1952, the American Psychiatric Association listed homosexuality in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ( DSM ) as a sociopathic personality disturbance.

In 2008, the AIUM published a 130-page report titled " American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine Consensus Report on Potential Bioeffects of Diagnostic Ultrasound " stating that there are indeed some potential risks to administering ultrasound tests, which include " postnatal thermal effects, fetal thermal effects, postnatal mechanical effects, fetal mechanical effects, and bioeffects considerations for ultrasound contrast agents.

The American Psychiatric Association has classified certain voyeuristic fantasies, urges and behavior patterns as a paraphilia in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ( DSM-IV ) if the person has acted on these urges, or the sexual urges or fantasies cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulty.

The gay rights or gay liberation movement is often thought to have been part of anti-psychiatry in its efforts to challenge oppression and stigma and, specifically, to get homosexuality removed from the American Psychiatric Association's ( APA ) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

In the United States, the American Psychiatric Association permits a diagnosis of gender identity disorder if the four diagnostic criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4thEdition, Text-Revised ( DSM-IV-TR ) are met.

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 ".

For example the definitions offered by the American Speech-language-Hearing Association differ from that of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual 4th edition ( DSM-IV ).

Eating disorders are classified as Axis I disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders ( DSM-IV ) published by the American Psychiatric Association.

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It differs from cross-dressing for entertainment or other purposes that do not involve sexual arousal and is categorized as a paraphilia in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association.

The diagnostic criteria utilized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-IV-TR ) published by the American Psychiatric Association includes repetitive episodes of binge eating ( a discrete episode of overeating during which the individual feels out of control of consumption ) compensated for by excessive or inappropriate measures taken to avoid gaining weight.