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Fourth edition. 886 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 1994. $42.95. ISBN 0-89042-062-9.
(Vol. 1.) Edited by Thomas A. Widiger, Allen J. Frances, Harold Alan Pincus, Michael B. First, Ruth Ross, and Wendy Davis. 768 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 1994. $112.50. ISBN 0-89042-065-3.
By Michael A. Fauman. 420 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 1994. $26.95. ISBN 0-88048-696-1.
Edited by Robert L. Spitzer, Miriam Gibbon, Andrew E. Skodol, Janet B.W. Williams, and Michael B. First. 576 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 1994. $40.50 (cloth); $29.25 (paper). ISBN 0-88048-674-0 (cloth); 0-88048-675-9 (paper).
(Vol. 1: Fundamentals.) By Ekkehard Othmer and Sieglinde C. Othmer. 513 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 1994. $40.50. ISBN 0-88048-541-8.

The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the most comprehensive and authoritative book devoted to the classification of psychiatric illness. There have been four major revisions since 1950. The fourth edition (DSM-IV) closely follows the formats of the third edition (DSM-III; Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, 1980) and the revised third edition (DSM-III-R; Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, 1987), but is a third longer than the latter and includes more diagnostic categories.

Why do we need a new edition when the DSM-III-R was published only seven years ago? The answer is simple: scientific knowledge . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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