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    28. 03. 2019. ICD vs.

    DSM

    MEMBERSTOPICSPUBLICATIONS & DATABASESPSYCHOLOGY HELP CENTERNEWS & EVENTSSCIENCEEDUCATIONCAREERSABOUT APA

    ICD vs. DSM


    October 2009, Vol 40, No. 9
    Print version: page 63

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    What is the difference between the ICD and DSM?


    The ICD is a core function of the World Health Organization, spelled out in its constitution and ratified by all 193 WHO member
    countries. The ICD has existed for more than a century, and became WHO's responsibility when it was founded in 1948 as an
    agency of the United Nations. Before 1980, psychiatric diagnostic systems reflected the dominant psychoanalytic ideas of the
    time, emphasizing the role of experience, downplaying biology.
    "The American Psychiatric Association can really be credited with a revolution in psychiatric nosology with the publication of
    DSM-III by introducing a descriptive nosological system based on co-occurring clusters of symptoms," said WHO psychologist
    Geoffrey Reed, PhD.

    There was very little international participation in the DSM-III, but at the time it may have been impossible to make such a big
    shift at the international level, he explained. As a result, DSM-III and ICD-8 (the version in effect at the time) were quite different
    from one another but as the descriptive phenomenological approach to diagnose mental disorders became dominant, the
    DSM and ICD have become very similar, partly because of collaborative agreements between the two organizations.

    Still, there is widespread sentiment that it is not helpful to the field to have two separate classification systems for mental
    disorders. Many important distinctions between the two systems remain, Reed said:

    The ICD is produced by a global health agency with a constitutional public health mission, while the DSM is produced by a
    single national professional association.

    WHO's primary focus for the mental and behavioral disorders classification is to help countries to reduce the disease burden
    of mental disorders. ICD's development is global, multidisciplinary and multilingual; the primary constituency of the DSM is
    U.S. psychiatrists.

    The ICD is approved by the World Health Assembly, composed of the health ministers of all 193 WHO member countries; the
    DSM is approved by the assembly of the American Psychiatric Association, a group much like APA's Council of
    Representatives.

    The ICD is distributed as broadly as possible at a very low cost, with substantial discounts to low-income countries, and
    available free on the Internet; the DSM generates a very substantial portion of the American Psychiatric Association's
    revenue, not only from sales of the book itself, but also from related products and copyright permissions for books and
    scientific articles.

    Will the DSM be superseded by the ICD? There is little justification for maintaining the DSM as a separate diagnostic system
    from the ICD in the long run, particularly given the U.S. government's substantial engagement with WHO in the area of
    classification systems. But, said Reed, "there would still be a role for the DSM, because it contains a lot of additional
    information that will never be part of the ICD. In the future, it may be viewed as an important textbook of psychiatric diagnosis
    rather than as the diagnostic 'Bible.'"

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