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  • The focus of discord is a volume called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, which psychiatrists turn to when diagnosing the distressed individuals who turn up at their offices seeking help.

    Renegade Futurist 2009

  • The most influential diagnostic categories among mental health professionals are in the diagnostic bible, called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM.

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • The controversy remains front and center because the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has almost finished redefining autism, along with all other mental disorders, in an overhaul of a hefty tome dubbed the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-the essential reference guide that clinicians use when evaluating their patients.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com webmaster@huffingtonpost.com 2012

  • Posted on YouTube this week, the nine-minute documentary - called Diagnostic - by the

    Dose.ca Music briefs Charlie Fidelman 2010

  • To do this, doctors rely on the bible of psychiatry, a book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Even though many researchers already refer to Asperger's as high-functioning autism, it hasn't been listed under the autism category in the official diagnostic guide of mental disorders, called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, or DSM.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • To do this, doctors rely on the bible of psychiatry, a book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • To do this, doctors rely on the bible of psychiatry, a book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Even though many researchers already refer to Asperger's as high-functioning autism, it hasn't been listed under the autism category in the official diagnostic guide of mental disorders, called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, or DSM.

    Renegade Futurist Klint Finley 2010

  • Mental disorders officially recognized by the American Psychiatric Association and a checklist of their symptoms are catalogued in a book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

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