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• This list of diagnostic criteria is not meant to replace the consultation with a licensed professional trained in testing, assessment and psychological diagnostic but as a general information tool.
• Improper usage may lead to dangerous conclusion. OPS cannot be held responsible for any decisions you make regarding your mental health treatment. Only an experienced mental health professional can make an actual diagnosis. You should always verify this information before you act upon it. If you believe you may be suffering from one of these disorders, please consult a mental health professional. These symptom lists are summarized versions under the "Fair use" provision of U.S. copyright case law. They were summarized from the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disoders, Fourth Edition. All available edition will be found at DSM® Library.
  
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  The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders. It is used in the United States and in varying degrees around the world, by clinicians, researchers, psychiatric drug regulation agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and policy makers.

  The DSM has attracted controversy and criticism as well as praise. There have been five revisions since it was first published in 1952, gradually including more mental disorders, though some have been removed and are no longer considered to be mental disorders.

  The manual evolved from systems for collecting census and psychiatric hospital statistics, and from a manual developed by the US Army, and was dramatically revised in 1980. The last major revision was the fourth edition ("DSM-IV"), published in 1994, although a "text revision" was produced in 2000. The fifth edition ("DSM-V") is currently in consultation, planning and preparation, due for publication in May 2013.

  In anticipation of the fact that the next major revision of the DSM (i.e., DSM-V) will not appear until 2010 or later (i.e., at least 16 years after DSM-IV), a text revision of the DSM-IV called DSM-IV-TR was published in July 2000. The primary goal of the DSM-IV-TR was to maintain the currency of the DSM-IV text, which reflected the empirical literature up to 1992. Thus, most of the major changes in DSM-IV-TR were confined to the descriptive text. Changes were made to a handful of criteria sets in order to correct errors identified in DSM-IV. In addition, some of the diagnostic codes were changed to reflect updates to the ICD-9-CM coding system adopted by the US Government.

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