Editing Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) (section)

== History ==
It consists of a sort of taxonomy of psychiatric disorders and is of real use in statistical terms. As previously conceived, psychiatric pathologies were systematically considered as a continuum from normal to severe pathology. As a result, there were no clear distinctions between what was considered normal and what was pathological. Therefore a considerable part of the general population was likely to be diagnosed as a carrier of a psychiatric disorder. We then insisted on the intensity of the disorder judged on personal or interpersonal difficulties.

The DSM was the subject of many controversies, particularly with regard to homosexuality which was withdrawn from the diagnostic manual in 1973 after three years of demonstrations by associations of homosexual representatives ('' see in particular: '' [[Kameny (Frank) ]]).

The third edition of the DSM in 1980 was the subject of major changes. She abandons the psychiatric model in favor of a biomedical model. However, it retains the categorical approach delimiting populations carrying pathologies defined on the basis of clinical criteria.

The fourth edition (DSM-IV) was published in 1994 and recognized 410 psychiatric disorders. Currently a revised version from 2000 is used. A fifth edition is announced for 2011 and working groups were set up in 2007.