ABSTRACT
… the DSM is a work in progress. Within weeks of the appearance of DSM-III in 1980, people were discussing what DSM-IV should look like. After DSM-III came DSM-IIIR (R for ‘revised’) in 1987, DSM-IV in 1994, DSM-IV TR (TR for ‘text revision’) in 2000, and now DSM-5. Some suggest that there will never be a ‘DSM-6’, on the grounds that the whole endeavour is self-destructing.
