D.S.M.
Americanabbreviation
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
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Doctor of Sacred Music.
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Example Sentences
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Ryan opened a snowpack PowerPoint while we took notes about storm slabs and wind slabs and persistent slabs, all of which sounded like subcategorical psychiatric disorders from the D.S.M.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2019
“This is common enough that we debated whether to include it as a diagnosis in the D.S.M. 5,” psychiatrists’ influential diagnostic manual, said Dr. Michael First, a Columbia psychiatrist who edited it.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2014
But “the bad news,” he added, “is that the scientific status of the main diseases in previous editions of the D.S.M. — the keystones of the vault of psychiatry — is fragile.”
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2010
To the 58-year-old Army veteran, V.M.I.-man and West Pointer, possessor of the D.S.M.,
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he presented the D.S.M. to about fifty men, pinning the medal on each, and shaking each by the hand.
From A "Y Girl in France Letters of Katherine Shortall by Shortall, Katherine
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