Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Doctor of Sacred Music.
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Ryan opened a snowpack PowerPoint while we took notes about storm slabs and wind slabs and persistent slabs, all of which sounded like subcategorical psychiatric disorders from the D.S.M.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2019
But any armchair diagnostician with the latest D.S.M. could make a few educated guesses.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2016
“This is common enough that we debated whether to include it as a diagnosis in the D.S.M. 5,” psychiatrists’ influential diagnostic manual, said Dr. Michael First, a Columbia psychiatrist who edited it.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2014
When the S-4 was rammed and lost with 40 men in 1927, he was again called to salvage duty, had the rare Gold Star added to his D.S.M.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was sure the star turn, that Pridmore, and I was glad to read the other day that they had given him the D.S.M.
From Sea-Hounds by Freeman, Lewis R.
Mike Richardson, the 66-year-old founder and owner of DSM, says he had tried to incorporate "nature" as much as possible into his data centre at a former RAF base just off the A1 near Peterborough.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
To diagnose autism, clinicians often make calls based on criteria in a handbook called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
As the decades went on, the DSM definition of autism broadened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
One of the things he points out is that the reason for the so-called Goldwater Rule was that the DSM had not yet been established.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2024
First of all there’s the DSM, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which lists every kind of psychological disorder known to man—that’s fun reading.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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