American Psychoanalytic Association

We will start our postings on Psychoanalysis with a quick stop at the website for the American Psychoanalytic Association. While the site at http://www.apsa.org/ is primarily designed for therapists, high school teachers can find some useful information.

Pay particular attention to the "About Psychoanalysis" section as well as the "Education Initiative" tab under the "Programs" section.

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DSM in PDF

PLEASE NOTE: AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC PUBLISHING HAS SINCE REMOVED THE LINKS TO THE PDF VERSIONS OF PREVIOUS DSMs AND PUT THEM BEHIND A PASSWORD PROTECTED WALL. WE ARE SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE DUE TO THIS CHANGE.

On their website, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. includes electronic versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders I, II, III, IIIR, and IV. Each of the books are available in a PDF format.

This provides a perfect opportunity to see how the various disorders names, descriptions, and symptom patterns have changes over the years. Below I've included the links to each of the past DSMs.

DSM-I in PDF
http://www.psychiatryonline.com/DSMPDF/dsm-i.pdf

DSM-II in PDF
http://www.psychiatryonline.com/DSMPDF/dsm-ii.pdf

DSM-III in PDF
http://www.psychiatryonline.com/DSMPDF/dsm-iii.pdf

DSM-III-R in PDF
http://www.psychiatryonline.com/DSMPDF/dsm-iii-r.pdf

DSM-IV in PDF
http://www.psychiatryonline.com/DSMPDF/dsm-iv.pdf

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DSM-5 Proposed Changes Website

On Wednesday, February 10, 2010, the American Psychiatric Association released the proposed draft diagnostic criteria for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5).

The proposed diagnostic criteria will be available for public comment until April 20, and will be reviewed and refined over the next two years. According to the current schedule, DSM-5 will be released in May of 2013.

To view the proposed changes go to http://www.dsm5.org

On a completely trivial point, it appears from their website, press releases and other publications, the American Psychiatric Association is abandoning the Roman Numeral system in going from DSM-IV to DSM-5.

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