DSM-IV-TR: The Current Manual
Since the next major revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) will not appear until 2012 (i.e., at least 18 years after DSM-IV was published in 1994), a text revision of DSM-IV, called DSM-IV-TR, was published in July 2000. The primary goal of DSM-IV-TR was to maintain the currency of the DSM-IV text, which reflected the empirical literature up to 1992. Thus, most of the major changes in DSM-IV-TR were confined to the descriptive text. Changes were made to a handful of criteria sets in order to correct errors identified in DSM-IV. In addition, some of the diagnostic codes were changed to reflect updates to the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Edition, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) coding system adopted by the U.S. government.
The next edition of the DSM, DSM-V, is not scheduled for publication until 2012. More information about the DSM revision process and the current activities in planning for the development of DSM-V are available on this Web site.