I am doing a report on how the idea, therapy, and signs of depression have changed throughout the Diagnotic and Statical Manual of Mental Health. I have found information on three, threeR, and Four, but no information on one or two. All I know is that the first DSM was published in 1917. Is this a lost cause or is there information out there?

-- Jessica Coleman (jrfishy16@hotmail.com), October 02, 2001

Answers

The DSM-II was published in 1968 and is available in many unviersity libraries (and probably even on the shelves of some of your more senior professors).

The original DSM was published in 1952. It succeeded the earlier "Statistical manual for use of institutions or[of?] the insane"(1st ed., 1918 which was published in collaboration with the National Committee for Mental Hygiene."

Also prior to the DSM was, of course, the International Classification of Disease (ICD), which is now publisehd by the World Health Organization and which the Europeans still use.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), October 03, 2001.