DSM-I
Proper noun
Meaning
DSM-I
(psychology) The 1952 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.
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Examples
Dementia praecox disappeared from official psychiatry with the publication of DSM-I, replaced by the Bleuler/Meyer hybridization, "schizophrenic reaction".
Both the DSM-I and the DSM-II reflected the predominant psychodynamic psychiatry, citation although they also included biological perspectives and concepts from Kraepelin 's system of classification.
The 1952 first edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I) classified homosexuality as a mental disorder.
It was quite similar to the DSM-I.
The specifics of the disorder were to be provided by the clinician as a "supplementary term" to the sexual deviation diagnosis; there were no restrictions in the DSM-I on what this supplementary term could be.