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DSM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Tyrer
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 200 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 67
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2012 

DSM is an American classification system that has dominated since 1980. It is disliked by many for reducing diagnostic skills to a cold list of operational criteria, yet embraced by researchers believing that it represents the first whiff of sense in an area of primitive dogma. It has almost foundered by confusing reliability with validity but the authors seem to recognise its errors and are hoping for rebirth in its 5th revision due in May 2013. The initials do not stand for Diagnosis as a Source of Money or Diagnosis for Simple Minds but the possibility of confusion is present.

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