DSM Foundations
Before studying individual disorders, start here: what DSM is for, how it is organized, and how psychologists reason with diagnostic information.
Learning domains and disorder families organize everything in DSM-5 Learning Lab.
Before studying individual disorders, start here: what DSM is for, how it is organized, and how psychologists reason with diagnostic information.
Conditions that typically emerge early in development and involve differences in cognitive, social, motor, or communication development.
Conditions involving disturbances in reality testing, such as delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking, or disorganized/abnormal motor behavior.
Conditions involving episodes of abnormally elevated, expansive, or irritable mood alongside increased energy or activity.
Conditions sharing a core feature of sad, empty, or irritable mood accompanied by changes that significantly affect functioning.
Conditions sharing features of excessive fear and anxiety and related behavioral disturbances.
Conditions involving intrusive, unwanted thoughts and/or repetitive behaviors performed to reduce distress.
Conditions in which exposure to a traumatic or stressful event is an explicit diagnostic requirement.
Conditions involving disruption of the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception.
Conditions featuring prominent somatic (bodily) symptoms associated with significant distress and impairment.
Conditions involving persistent disturbance of eating or eating-related behavior that impairs health or functioning.
Conditions involving the inappropriate elimination of urine or feces, usually first diagnosed in childhood.
Conditions involving disturbance of sleep quality, timing, or amount causing distress or daytime impairment.
Conditions characterized by a clinically significant disturbance in a person's ability to respond sexually or experience sexual pleasure.
A marked incongruence between a person's experienced/expressed gender and their assigned gender, associated with clinically significant distress.
Conditions involving problems with emotional and behavioral self-control that violate the rights of others or bring the individual into conflict with social norms.
Conditions resulting from the use of substances or from certain repetitive behaviors linked to activation of the brain's reward system.
Conditions in which a decline in cognitive function is the primary clinical feature, and the deficit is acquired rather than developmental.
Enduring patterns of inner experience and behavior that deviate markedly from cultural expectations, are pervasive and inflexible, and cause distress or impairment.
Conditions in which a paraphilia (an atypical pattern of sexual interest) causes distress, impairment, or personal harm/risk of harm to others.
Additional clinical conditions and V/Z codes that may be a focus of clinical attention even when they are not themselves mental disorders.