Mar 30, 2012 · Prepared by the Work Group to Revise DSM-III of the American Psychiatric Association Includes indexes

Finally published in 1980, DSM-III listed 265 diagnostic categories and was 494 pages long. It rapidly came into widespread international use and has been termed a revolution, or …

Work began on DSM–III in 1974, with publication in 1980. DSM–III introduced a number of important innovations, including explicit diagnostic criteria, a multiaxial diagnostic assessment …

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III) published by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980, and now translated in many languages, has …

DSM-III Axis I is intended to be used for multiple recordings such as schizophrenic disorder or substance abuse . However, clinicians rarely made such additional diagnoses, even when a …

Previous editions of DSM are included here for reference and archival purposes. Each edition is provided in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF). You need Adobe’s Reader 5.0.5 or …

The DSM-III, Revised Edition (DSM-III-R) attempted to provide a more empirically and statistically based set of criteria that could distinguish ADHD, not simply from the general population norm, …

The 3rd edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-III) appeared in 1980 and proved to be a landmark in the development of psychiatric taxonomy.

In the first part of this article the authors describe some of the major achievements of DSM-III: the process of its development, reaching consensus on many controversial diagnostic categories …