Definition DSM-IV 

DSM

[Lit. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders \ psychiatry] Psychiatric published manual of the American Psychiatric Association; DSM-I, DSM-II, DSM-III and DSM-IV were successively published. They were meant for standard guidelines in psychiatry. It the most used guide in psychiatry, more than a 1000 people worked on the books, so it gives objective information

DSM-IV

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders, Fourth edition, 2000

DSM-IV-TR®

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders, Fourth edition, Text Revision, 2005. The manual is a trade mark and therefore liable to commercial subjectivity, but is however world standard next to the ICD-10 (WHO, 1992).

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