I've started putting DSM criteria on my website, for the following two reasons:
Awhile back I tried to find older DSM criteria (I believe DSM-III-R but can't remember exactly) for some conditions and discovered that the only DSM criteria available on the Internet, that I could find by googling, was DSM-IV. History is important, and I'd like older DSM criteria to be publicly available so people can see the history of the DSM.
Recently I happened, on impulse, to photocopy a substantial chunk of the DSM-III and DSM-III-R while I was at the Health Sciences branch of my local universary's library.
So anyway, on my page I've put up the DSM-III and -III-R criteria for conduct disorder, the autistic spectrum and ADHD so far, and linked to the DSM-IV criteria. I will do more conditions, and probably put up my own summaries of the changes in the criteria and what I think about that (for example, DSM-III had a category called Childhood Onset Pervasive Developmental Disorder which was most likely roughly equivalent to DSM-IV's Childhood Disintegrative Disorder), as time goes on.
Awhile back I tried to find older DSM criteria (I believe DSM-III-R but can't remember exactly) for some conditions and discovered that the only DSM criteria available on the Internet, that I could find by googling, was DSM-IV. History is important, and I'd like older DSM criteria to be publicly available so people can see the history of the DSM.
Recently I happened, on impulse, to photocopy a substantial chunk of the DSM-III and DSM-III-R while I was at the Health Sciences branch of my local universary's library.
So anyway, on my page I've put up the DSM-III and -III-R criteria for conduct disorder, the autistic spectrum and ADHD so far, and linked to the DSM-IV criteria. I will do more conditions, and probably put up my own summaries of the changes in the criteria and what I think about that (for example, DSM-III had a category called Childhood Onset Pervasive Developmental Disorder which was most likely roughly equivalent to DSM-IV's Childhood Disintegrative Disorder), as time goes on.
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