D.S.M.
Americanabbreviation
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
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Doctor of Sacred Music.
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Example Sentences
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But any armchair diagnostician with the latest D.S.M. could make a few educated guesses.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2016
The criteria for depression are being reviewed by the American Psychiatry Association, which is finishing work on the fifth edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or D.S.M., the first since 1994.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2012
But “the bad news,” he added, “is that the scientific status of the main diseases in previous editions of the D.S.M. — the keystones of the vault of psychiatry — is fragile.”
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2010
To 57-year-old Major General George S. Patton�hard as carborundum and sometimes twice as rough�went his second D.S.M. last week, to be added to one of the finest collections of ribbons in the Army.
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.
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