The official psychiatric diagnostic manual applies the conduct disorder diagnosis to children who repeatedly steal, run away, skip school or the like.

Dr. Klein helped write the psychiatric manual on which Dr. Schechter based his diagnosis.

The target of the delusion is typically someone of higher status, according to the official psychiatric diagnostic manual.

For that reason, a new diagnosis, a "disinhibited type" of dementia, has been proposed for inclusion in the next edition of the official psychiatric diagnostic manual.

Not surprisingly, the psychiatric diagnostic manual does not list "messy room" in the index.

It was only in 1987 that imagined ugliness was recognized as a disorder in the official psychiatric diagnostic manual.

One-quarter of the patients were found to have a mental disorder, as defined by the official psychiatric diagnostic manual.

The latest edition of the psychiatric manual on diagnosis includes, for the first time, a tentative category of "self-defeating personality disorder."

First included in the psychiatric diagnostic manual in 1980, its definition was revised as more was learned.

As they revise their psychiatric diagnostic manual, researchers are wondering why so many women feel little sexual desire and what should be done for them.