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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In addition, the D.S.M. criteria for the disorder is subjective, said Dr. Martin Teicher, a psychiatry professor and the editor of the Harvard Medical School guide on adult A.D.H.D.
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2021
But any armchair diagnostician with the latest D.S.M. could make a few educated guesses.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2016
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
He got out of the Army shortly after Dick Mellon, 47, who had also served as a colonel and also won a 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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