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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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
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
To the 58-year-old Army veteran, V.M.I.-man and West Pointer, possessor of the D.S.M.,
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he presented the D.S.M. to about fifty men, pinning the medal on each, and shaking each by the hand.
From A "Y Girl in France Letters of Katherine Shortall by Shortall, Katherine
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