Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-5 (5th edition)

Although it is billed as the fifth edition, any normal non-psychiatrist would call this the seventh, with a long back history behind it. Following earlier attempts by the US Census authorities, the American Medico-Psychological Association, as it then was, produced a brief statistical breakdown of mental disorders in 1917. After changing its name to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) it produced a new classified list which was eventually incorporated into the American Medical Association's Standard Classified Nomenclature of Disease. There is also an international classification of diseases: in 1900 an international congress started publishing the International Classification of Causes...