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D.S.M.
abbreviation for
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
- Doctor of Sacred Music.
DSM
abbreviation for
- Distinguished Service Medal
Example Sentences
The most recent edition of the D.S.M., published in 2013, acknowledged an even broader spectrum of behaviors that might indicate autism and specified that autism in girls could go unrecognized because of “subtler manifestations of social and communication difficulties.”
Over time, as experts gained understanding of autism as a wide spectrum of behaviors, the D.S.M.’s criteria broadened.
By removing the diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or D.S.M., psychiatry removed the legal basis for a wide range of discriminatory practices: for denying gay people the right to employment, citizenship, housing and the custody of children; for excluding them from the clergy and the military and the institution of marriage.
“That is a huge pressure on the D.S.M.”
“They were the widows who wore black for the rest of their lives, who withdrew from social contacts and lived the rest of their lives in memory of the husband or wife who they had lost,” said Dr. Paul S. Appelbaum, who is chair of the steering committee overseeing revisions to the fifth edition of the D.S.M.
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