Books
A short reading list, with one sentence on what each book is for.
American Psychiatric Association · American Psychiatric Association · 1968
The last psychodynamic edition. Neurosis is still a category and disorders are still assumed to have causes.
American Psychiatric Association · American Psychiatric Association · 1980
The break. Operational criteria replace assumed causes, and psychoanalysis stops being the organising frame of American psychiatry.
American Psychiatric Association · American Psychiatric Association · 1994
The DSM-III model refined across some four hundred categories, with the multiaxial system that later editions dropped.
American Psychiatric Association · American Psychiatric Association · 2013
Arabic numbering, the multiaxial system removed, spectrum thinking introduced. The most disputed revision since 1980.
American Psychiatric Association · American Psychiatric Association · 2022
The current American manual. It adds prolonged grief disorder, which puts a time limit on mourning for the first time.
World Health Organization · World Health Organization · 1992
The classification UK and European services worked to for thirty years, and the one much of the record is still coded in.
World Health Organization · World Health Organization · 2022
The current international classification, and the one that applies in your markets. It recognises complex PTSD; the DSM does not.