| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) |
Diagnostic Criteria for the most common mental disorders
including: description, diagnosis, treatment, and research
findings. This list references the diagnostic criteria of
mental disorders as described in the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition (DSM-IV),
published by the American Psychiatric Association, Washington
D.C., 1994, the main diagnostic reference of Mental Health
professionals in the United States of America.
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Tourette's
Disorder (senso-motoric disturbance
with involuntary sounds and movements--so-called
tics--with onset before age 18)
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Autistic
Disorder (marked impairment in social
interactions with onset before age 18)
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Delusional
Disorder (clear, systemic
delusions based in reality as opposed
to schizophrenia with bizarre delusions)
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Schizoaffective
Disorder (hybrid of a disturbance
in thought and mood, displaying symptoms
of schizophrenia AND e.g depression
at the same time)
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Schizophrenia
(severe disturbance --psychotic--of
thought processes, with several subtypes:
e.g. catatonic, paranoid or disorganized
type)
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Shared
Psychotic Disorder (especially
in relationships, partner showing same
symptoms, e.g. buying into the belief
of being abducted by aliens)
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Delirium
(main features are disorientation, confusion
and reduced level of consciousness)
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Dementia
(impairment in cognitive functioning
as e.g. orientation, judgement, or memory;
Alzheimer's syndromes)
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Opioid
Dependence (heroin, methadone,
morphine, demerol, percodan, opium,
codeine, darvon)
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Sedative
Dependence (sleeping pills,
barbiturates, seconal, valium, librium,
ativan, xanax, quaaludes)
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- Dissociative Disorders
(Dissociative Identity Disorder =
Multiple Personality Disorder; probably
anxiety related disorders)
- Somatoform Disorders
(Interrelation between physical and
psychological Symptoms)
- Factitious Disorders
(Feigning Illness, Malingering "Muenchhausen
Syndrome etc."
- Sexual Disorders
(Sexual Dysfunctions and Paraphilias)
- Sleep Disorders
(Sleep Apnea, Sonambulism etc.)
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