DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria of Mental Disorders

Introduction:

Diagnostic Criteria for the most common mental disorders including: description, diagnosis, treatment, and research findings. This list is a shortened version (incomplete) of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), published by the American Psychiatric Association, Washington D.C., the main diagnostic reference of Mental Health professionals in the United States of America.

Please note that this list is not up to date also. For latest information you should consider to visit DSM section of American Psychiatric Association.

• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (Primarily Inattentive or Impulsive Type)
• Conduct Disorder (the Antisocial Personality Disorder of Childhood)
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder (not only for children)
• Tourette's Disorder (senso-motoric disturbance with involuntary sounds and movements--so-called tics--with onset before age 18)
• Autistic Disorder (marked impairment in social interactions with onset before age 18)

• Brief Psychotic Disorder (episode of disturbed thought processes)
• Delusional Disorder (clear, systemic delusions based in reality as opposed to schizophrenia with bizarre delusions)
• Schizoaffective Disorder (hybrid of a disturbance in thought and mood, displaying symptoms of schizophrenia AND e.g depression at the same time)
• Schizophrenia (severe disturbance --psychotic--of thought processes, with several subtypes: e.g. catatonic, paranoid or disorganized type)
• Schizophreniform Disorder (brief--less than6 months--form of schizophrenia)
• Shared Psychotic Disorder (especially in relationships, partner showing same symptoms, e.g. buying into the belief of being abducted by aliens)

• Delirium (main features are disorientation, confusion and reduced level of consciousness)
• Dementia (impairment in cognitive functioning as e.g. orientation, judgement, or memory; Alzheimer's syndromes)
• Multi-infarct Dementia (same as Dementia but with evidence of multiple strokes or TIAs)

• Bipolar I Disorder (mania with/without major depression)
• Bipolar II Disorder (hypomania with major depression)
• Cyclothymic Disorder (numerous brief episodes of hypomania and minor depression)
• Dysthymic Disorder (prolonged minor depression without mania/hypomania)
• Major Depressive Disorder (major depression without mania)

Anxiety Related Disorders

• Acute Stress Disorder (acute psychological consequences of previous trauma)
• Adjustment Disorder (difficulties coping with change)
• Agoraphobia (generalized irrational fear)
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder (nonspecific anxiety)
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (obessive thoughts and compulsive rituals)
• Panic Disorder (unprovoked panic attacks)
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (nonacute psychological consequences of previous trauma)
• Separation Anxiety Disorder
• Social Phobia (irrational fear of embarrassment)
• Specific Phobia (other specific irrational fears)

• Anorexia Nervosa (self-imposed starvation)
• Bulimia Nervosa (binge eating and dieting)

Substance Use Disorders

• Alcohol Dependence (alcoholism)
• Amphetamine Dependence (stimulants, speed, uppers, diet pills)
• Cannabis Dependence (marijuana, grass, pot, weed, reefer, hashish, bhang, ganja)
• Cocaine Dependence (coke, crack, coca leaves)
• Hallucinogen Dependence (psychedelics, LSD, mescaline, peyote, psilocybin, DMT)
• Inhalant Dependence (sniffing: glue, gasoline, toluene, solvents)
• Opioid Dependence (heroin, methadone, morphine, demerol, percodan, opium, codeine, darvon)
• Phencyclidine Dependence (PCP, angel dust)
• Sedative Dependence (sleeping pills, barbiturates, seconal, valium, librium, ativan, xanax, quaaludes)

• Antisocial Personality Disorder (impulsive, aggressive, manipulative)
• Avoidant Personality Disorder (passive, anxious)
• Borderline Personality Disorder (impulsive, self-destructive, unstable)
• Dependent Personality Disorder (dependent, submissive, clinging)
• Histrionic Personality Disorder (emotional, dramatic, theatrical)
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder (boastful, egotistical, "superiority complex")
• Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (perfectionistic, rigid, controlling)
• Paranoid Personality Disorder (suspicious, distrustful)
• Schizoid Personality Disorder (socially distant, detached)
• Schizotypal Personality Disorder (odd, eccentric)

• Dissociative Disorders (Dissociative Identity Disorder = Multiple Personality Disorder; probably anxiety related disorders)
• Somatoform Disorders (Interrelation between physical and psychological Symptoms)
• Factitious Disorders (Feigning Illness, Malingering "Muenchhausen Syndrome etc."
• Sexual Disorders (Sexual Dysfunctions and Paraphilias)
• Sleep Disorders (Sleep Apnea, Sonambulism etc.)